On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, January Weiner wrote: > Oh, thanks, that was hint enough :-) I see it now. I turns that R does > not understand > > e-10 > > ...which stands for 1e-10 and is produced by some of the bioinformatic > applications that I use (notably BLAST).
And that is not standard C notation. > However, R instead of being > verbose on that just assumes that the whole column is a string. > > Is there a way to enforce a specific conversion in R (for example, to > be able to see where the errors are?). Please study ?read.table, especially 'colClasses'. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
