I have looked at the help page and at "Notes on R" and not found much info on data.entry. I wanted to use it to put my class marks into a data frame (I don't normally use data frames but I guess this is the way to do it). data.entry() brings up the spreadsheet. OK enter data, change col names, change col data types etc. Now how do I save these data to disk as a dataframe? Clicking Quit seems to just create these cols as independent vectors. Then I have to manually string them all together into a dataframe using data.frame()? Is there a better way? One other question. At the end of term I want to print up the spreadsheet (name, student#, test1, test2, etc). The marks will all be in a data frame. Is it possible to get a print out like: Name Number test1 test2 test3 ... ----------------------------------------------- bob ads12 10 20 30 joe gfd73 20 30 50 ... (I know this is not using data.entry, but the idea of using data.entry is to simulate a spreadsheet, and one thing you do with spreadsheets is make print-outs like this) Thanks for any help! BTW I think it would be helpful to have a little write-up in Notes on R, I would do it if you want. Many newbies would like to use data.entry if they knew how, I think. Bill Simpson -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._