R help - Dec 2008 - Using 'cat' on data frame

Dear all,

I have the following data frame:
> raw.count
                                    Var1
                 Freq
1     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   707
2     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC    14
3     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT     3

But why when printint it using 'cat', it doesn't print
the desired string "AAA" ?
> cat(raw.count$Var1, "\n")
1 2 3

What's wrong with my cat command above.



- Gundala Viswanath

print(as.matrix(raw.count),quote=F)

cat(as.character(raw.count$Var1))

Jacques VESLOT

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>-----Message d'origine-----
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>de Gundala Viswanath
>Envoy??: mercredi 24 d?cembre 2008 08:35
>??: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Objet?: [R] Using 'cat' on data frame
>
>Dear all,
>
>I have the following data frame:
>
>> raw.count
>                                    Var1
>                 Freq
>1     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   707
>2     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC    14
>3     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT     3
>
>But why when printint it using 'cat', it doesn't print
>the desired string "AAA" ?
>
>> cat(raw.count$Var1, "\n")
>1 2 3
>
>What's wrong with my cat command above.
>
>
>
>- Gundala Viswanath
>
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On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Gundala Viswanath wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have the following data frame:
>
>> raw.count
>                                    Var1
>                 Freq
> 1     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   707
> 2     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC    14
> 3     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT     3
>
> But why when printint it using 'cat', it doesn't print
> the desired string "AAA" ?
>
>> cat(raw.count$Var1, "\n")
> 1 2 3
>
> What's wrong with my cat command above.
"What's wrong" is that Var1 is a factor rather than a character  
vector. Veslot's answers provide the proper method for dealing with  
that situation.

-- 
David Winsemius
>
>
>
>
> - Gundala Viswanath
>
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