R help - Apr 2008 - Vegan dataframe not acting nicely

This is what my data looks like

                                DOC  TOC  TKN
RM119mFeb-06  1         2        3
RM61mFeb-06     2        4        6

I have this both in a .csv and .txt  I have read this in with

read.csv("chemodr.csv", header=T)

and this is what I get

              X dAmon   DN.N Nitrite.N  DOC    OP       P   TKN  TOC
1   RM215mFeb-06 0.000 0.1300    0.0000  2.5 0.057  0.0420 0.420  2.2
2      SCmFeb-06 0.000 0.1200    0.0000 13.0 0.130  0.0960 0.950 12.0
3   RM202mFeb-06 0.000 0.1300    0.0000  4.6 0.035  0.0760 0.610  4.3
4   RM198mFeb-06 0.000 0.1300    0.0044  5.4 0.032  0.0330 0.910  5.0
5      HCmFeb-06 0.000 0.2800    0.0000  3.0 0.016  0.0220 0.800  3.1
6   RM190mFeb-06 0.000 0.1600    0.0130  3.3 0.068  0.0480 0.780  3.4

I can not do any ordination analysis because of the X column which is
the Site column of my data set.  How do I get this read in with dAmon
... TOC as the "species" and the X column as the "site"
column. I am
sure that I am missing something simple.
thanks

Stephen

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On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 20:59 -0400, stephen sefick wrote:
> This is what my data looks like
> 
>                                 DOC  TOC  TKN
> RM119mFeb-06  1         2        3
> RM61mFeb-06     2        4        6
> 
> I have this both in a .csv and .txt  I have read this in with
Your data can't possibly look like that if you "get" the print out
you
paste below. I presume you want column that has ended up being labeled
as 'X' as the rownames for your read-in object? It looks like R is
reading this as a variable, probably because you don't have the
delimiters in the header row right? But because you didn't paste the
first 2-3 lines of the actual file (as a minimum), we are not able to
diagnose the problem for you.

Also, what does this have to do with 'vegan'? This is a basic R import
issue.

Feel free to send the file to me off list (or the first few lines of the
file) and I'll see why it isn't being read in as you want. I promise to
do nothing with the data (other than show you how to read them in to R)
and delete them immediately thereafter.

HTH

G
> 
> read.csv("chemodr.csv", header=T)
> 
> and this is what I get
> 
>               X dAmon   DN.N Nitrite.N  DOC    OP       P   TKN  TOC
> 1   RM215mFeb-06 0.000 0.1300    0.0000  2.5 0.057  0.0420 0.420  2.2
> 2      SCmFeb-06 0.000 0.1200    0.0000 13.0 0.130  0.0960 0.950 12.0
> 3   RM202mFeb-06 0.000 0.1300    0.0000  4.6 0.035  0.0760 0.610  4.3
> 4   RM198mFeb-06 0.000 0.1300    0.0044  5.4 0.032  0.0330 0.910  5.0
> 5      HCmFeb-06 0.000 0.2800    0.0000  3.0 0.016  0.0220 0.800  3.1
> 6   RM190mFeb-06 0.000 0.1600    0.0130  3.3 0.068  0.0480 0.780  3.4
> 
> I can not do any ordination analysis because of the X column which is
> the Site column of my data set.  How do I get this read in with dAmon
> ... TOC as the "species" and the X column as the "site"
column. I am
> sure that I am missing something simple.
> thanks
> 
> Stephen
> 
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