See ?data.frame ?read.table and please read (appropriate parts of) the "Introduction to R" manual. Petr
Mallika Veeramalai napsal(a): > Hi All, > > Sorry for this basic question as I am new to this R. I would like to know, > is it possible to consider a matrix with some columns having numeric data > and some other's with characters (strings) data? How do I get this type of > data from a flat file. > > Thanks very much, > mallika > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Mallika Veeramalai, Ph.D., > Postdoctoral Associate, > Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, > Burnham Institute for Medical Research, > La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. > phone : +1 858 646 3100 ext: 3627 > Fax : +1 858 795 5249 > Web : http://bioinformatics.burnham.org/~mallika/ > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Petr Klasterecky Dept. of Probability and Statistics Charles University in Prague Czech Republic ______________________________________________ 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.