[R] Numbers not numeric?

Greetings R users, I have a curious problem. I read in a csv file (subset shown below) as normal data=read.table(C:/Users/Chaz/Desktop/test.csv,sep=,,header=TRUE, na.strings=.) However, the numbers from the dataset are not registered as numeric: is.numeric(data$Mesh) [1] FALSE When I try

Re: [R] Numbers not numeric?

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Charles Determan Jr deter...@umn.edu wrote: Greetings R users, I have a curious problem.  I read in a csv file (subset shown below) as normal data=read.table(C:/Users/Chaz/Desktop/test.csv,sep=,,header=TRUE, na.strings=.) However, the numbers from the