Re: [R] Converting factors to numeric in a dataframe

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Glanville
Hi petr, Thanks for the reply. My original data is in comma separated variable (csv) format with variable names in column 1 and numeric data in the remaining columns. The read.csv command reads this data set into object name pcrdata as a dataframe where the variable names and numeric data are

[R] Converting factors to numeric in a dataframe

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Glanville
I am currently trying to write a program that minimises the amount of work required for “auditable” qPCR data. At the moment I am using an Excel (.csv) spreadsheet as source data that has been transposed to the column format required for R to read. Unfortunately, this means I have* *to manually