R help - Apr 2005 - read.table with header and text data

Hi R!

I am reading in a text file which has one column of alpha data and 5 columns 
of numeric data.

There is a header row.

I would like the alpha data column to just be character rather than factor.

Is there a way to do this, please?  I'm thinking that it might be I() but 
can't figure out exactly how.

Thanks,
Laura
mailto: lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com
R 2.0.1 Windows

See ?read.table, especially the argument "as.is".

Cheers,
Rich

On Apr 7, 2005 9:55 AM, Laura Holt <lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi R!
> 
> I am reading in a text file which has one column of alpha data and 5
columns
> of numeric data.
> 
> There is a header row.
> 
> I would like the alpha data column to just be character rather than factor.
> 
> Is there a way to do this, please?  I'm thinking that it might be I()
but
> can't figure out exactly how.
> 
> Thanks,
> Laura
> mailto: lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com
> R 2.0.1 Windows
> 
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