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Hello, Is there an easy way to read a csv file with numeric values that contain thousands seperators. The file looks like this: Date;opening;High;Low;closing;Volume 12/02/08;4,764.95;4,897.62;4,729.13;4,895.31;- 13/02/08;4,868.02;4,927.81;4,833.85;4,898.60;- 14/02/08;4,942.18;4,962.43;4,877.88;4,895.99;- I want to get the numeric values as..., well, numeric values, and not as character strings.

Hi, I have a csv file with different datatypes: 2009-01-01, character1, 10, 20.1 2009-01-02, character2, 11, 21.1 (I have attached the file to this post) I read this file with read.zoo as I want a zoo/xts timeseries: > t = read.zoo("./data.txt", sep=",", dec = ".", header=FALSE) If I look at the zoo data all integer/numeric columns are read as character: >

I'm trying to use R CMD Rd2dvi and I end up at a Latex (I think) command prompt. What's missing or what am I suppose to do? Paul Gilbert _______ paul at breman:/apps/dse-versions/2000.6/dse#R CMD Rd2dvi syskern This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3) (Rd2.tex LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> Babel <v3.6k> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls Document Class: book 1...

Hello again I've looked through ?rpart, Atkinson & Therneau (1997), Chap 10 of Venables and Ripley, Breman et al., and the r hgelp archives but haven't seen the answer to these two questions 1) How does rpart deal with asymmetric loss matrices? Breiman et al. suggest some possibilities, but, of course, do not say how rpart does it. 2) In the loss matrix, which direction (column or row) is 't...

Hello everyone, I am reading a HTML table from a website with readHTMLTable() from the XML package: > library(XML) > moose = readHTMLTable("http://www.decisionmoose.com/Moosistory.html", header=FALSE, skip.rows=c(1,2), trim=TRUE)[[1]] > moose V1 V2 V3 1 07.02.2010 SWITCH to Long Bonds\n (BTTRX)

...__________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: breman.mark at gmail.com To: r-help at r-project.org Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:03:34 +0200 Subject: [R] Strange space characters in character strings Hello everyone, I am reading a HTML table from a website with readHTMLTable() from the XML package: > library(XML) > moose = readHTMLTable("h...