Try this: > Lines <- "Stock + T + F + " > DF <- read.table(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE, + colClasses = "character") > class(DF$Stock) [1] "character"
On 7/30/07, David Rowntree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to read a series of stock tickers into R, and I'm running > into trouble with Ford (F) and the old AT&T (T). Read.table seems to > interpret these as boolean values instead of strings, even when I set > colColumns to a vector of character(0)'s. Is there a way to convince it > to read them as strings? > > Thanks in advance for the help, > David > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
