Thanks Jim, Brian, and Petr. I found a non-number, ".", in my CSV file that prevented R from reading the data correctly. Once I got rid of it, R works fine. Thanks!
On 11/1/06, Jim Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Jim > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.