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mynameisJEFF
mynameisJEFF

Reputation: 4239

R: read in data

I tried to read in data into R. The original data in R looks like this(2 columns):

0001694304038 0001307304135
53693819142794292671008449081562285178 35902638881091172349429496704016716029
0001694315761 0002347472709

However, everytime I read this into RStudio, the data becomes 

                  V1           V2
1       1.694304e+09 1.307304e+09
2       5.369382e+37 3.590264e+37
3       1.694316e+09 2.347473e+09

How can I make R read in the data like what they are in the original data ? (I would them to appear in RStudio in the form that I have in my original data file)

To elaborate, Column 1 and 2 are IP addresses and I am trying to obtain an igraph. It will make my life easy if I can keep the IP address as it is in the original data.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 207

Answers (2)

stepthom
stepthom

Reputation: 1452

Read your data file as strings, not integers. This will depend on which input method you are using. Using, e.g., read.table, you can set colClasses as follows: 

dat = read.table(file="file.dat", header=F, colClasses=c("character", "character"))

Upvotes: 2

Hong Ooi
Hong Ooi

Reputation: 57686

Use the colClasses argument.

read.table(*, colClasses=c("character", "character"))

Upvotes: 1

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