Re: [R] using read.csv2()

2016-09-29 Thread ruipbarradas
nt of Social and Health Services -Original Message- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Alain Guillet Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 2:42 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] using read.csv2() Hello, The defaults in read.csv2 are ";" as t

Re: [R] using read.csv2()

2016-09-29 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
Original Message- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Alain > Guillet > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 2:42 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] using read.csv2() > > Hello, > > The defaults in read.csv2 are ";"

Re: [R] using read.csv2()

2016-09-29 Thread Alain Guillet
Hello, The defaults in read.csv2 are ";" as the separator and "," as the decimal symbol. It seems that the file you import is not a true csv since it mixes up two norms. You can solve your problem in defining the dec option equals to ".": read.csv2("test.csv",dec=".")->don Alain On 29/09/

Re: [R] using read.csv2()

2016-09-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
> On 29 Sep 2016, at 11:40 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > It's a "factor". read.csv2() defaults to a decimal separator of "," rather > than ".", so the last column doesn't look like numbers, and they're being > read as character strings, and then automatically converted to a factor. > Readin

Re: [R] using read.csv2()

2016-09-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/09/2016 4:59 AM, Voirin Pascale wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the variable type defined by reading a csv file with read.csv2. Here is a test file saved as < test.csv > : var1;var2;var3 TI;1995;4.5 VD;1990;4.8 FR;1994;3.9 VS;1993;5.1 FR;1995;4.7 FR;1992;5.8 That I read in R with :

Re: [R] using read.csv2()

2016-09-29 Thread Rainer M Krug
Voirin Pascale writes: > Hello, > > I have a problem with the variable type defined by reading a csv file with > read.csv2. > > Here is a test file saved as < test.csv > : > var1;var2;var3 > TI;1995;4.5 > VD;1990;4.8 > FR;1994;3.9 > VS;1993;5.1 > FR;1995;4.7 > FR;1992;5.8 > > That I read in R w

[R] using read.csv2()

2016-09-29 Thread Voirin Pascale
Hello, I have a problem with the variable type defined by reading a csv file with read.csv2. Here is a test file saved as < test.csv > : var1;var2;var3 TI;1995;4.5 VD;1990;4.8 FR;1994;3.9 VS;1993;5.1 FR;1995;4.7 FR;1992;5.8 That I read in R with : read.csv2("test.csv")->don;don don$var3 ## [1]