tom soyer wrote: > Hi, > > I have a CSV file with two columns; the first column is date, second column > is numbers. I used read.csv() to load the file into the variable temp. > Somehow, R could not recognize my numbers as double. Instead, it thinks > these numbers are integer even though they all have decimal points (isn't > that strange?). The problem I ran into is that if I tried to convert the > numbers to double using as.double, R doesn't give me the original value; e.g. > 9.92 becomes 805 (see below). > > The data seem to have been read as a factor, probably due to the wrong delimiter being supplied or assumed. Make sure that the delimiter in the file is the one specified on the read.* function. Another thing that might mess up the input is quote characters.
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