Eszter,
I suspect the problem is different than you think. It's possible that
when you read in the data it assumed that the first column was data, not
row names, and so when you transpose the first column becomes the first
row. Since it is alpha, all the columns become factors rather then
integers. Check to see on the non-transposed matrix wheter the number
of rows and columns is correct. If it incorrectly treated the first
column as data (as it would if you have the same number of column
headings as columns), you could read it back in with
> x <- read.table('file_name',header=TRUE, row.names=1)
and then transpose it
> y <- t(x)
Often at that point the row and column names are stripped off, and you
have to put them back.
> y <- data.frame(y)
> row.names(y) <- names(x)
> names(y) <- row.names(x)
I'm interested in PCoA in ecology, so let me know how it goes.
HTH Dave
Francisco J. Zagmutt wrote:
> Examples of the code you used would have helped i.e. We don't know how
> you transposed your matrix. Did you use t()? In any event,
> as.integer() may be what you need.
>
> Francisco
>
>
>> From: Illyes Eszter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [R] how to convert strings back to values?
>> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:55:44 +0100 (CET)
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> It's Eszter from Hungary, a total beginner with R. My problem is the
>> following:
>>
>> I have a dataset with binary values as a comma separated textfile. The
>> samples are in the coloumns and the species are in the rows.
>>
>> I have to transpose it for the further PCoA analysis. There is no
>> problem with reading the dataset.
>>
>> When I transpose the dataset, the original values become strings
>> (instead of 0,1,0,0,1 I have "0","1","0","0","1"). The distance matrix
>> cannot be counted from the transposed dataset, I have 2 error
>> messages:
>>
>> <Warning in vegdist(tdf1, method = "jaccard", binary = FALSE, diag =
>> FALSE, : results may be meaningless because input data have
>> negative entries>
>>
>> <Error in rowSums(x, prod(dn), p, na.rm) : 'x' must be numeric>
>>
>> I do not understand the first, since I have only 1 and 0 in the
>> dataset. I
>> guess I have the second because of the strings instead of values in the
>> dataset.
>>
>> Could you please help me solving these problems? I could not find
>> anything about these in the manuals.
>>
>> Thank you, cheers:
>>
>> Eszter
>>
>> p.s. This is a new problem, last week I worked with a similar dataset
>> and I did not get any error message like these.
>>
>>
>>
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