Imported a csv-dataset to R but the values becomes factors

Question

I am very new to R and I am having trouble accessing a dataset I\'ve imported. I\'m using RStudio and used the Import Dataset function when importing my csv-file and pasted

Answer 1

You can set this globally for all read.csv/read.* commands with options(stringsAsFactors=F)

Then read the file as follows: my.tab <- read.table( "filename.csv", as.is=T )

Answer 2

Both the data import function (here: read.csv()) as well as a global option offer you to say stringsAsFactors=FALSE which should fix this.