R Programming - String getting converted to numbers

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I have a text file with 100 names that I am trying to concatenate to create a large single string using the following code. However, my output is showing me a number for each name instead of the actual names itself.

It seems that when these names are being converted into character using the paste function, they are being converted into numbers. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

input=(read.csv("names.txt"))
final_output1 = paste(input, collapse = '')

If you have a single column paste(input[,1], collapse='') You can check the difference paste(data.frame(factor(letters)),collapse='') and paste(factor(letters),collapse='') — akrun
– akrun, Commented Jun 17, 2015 at 17:34

keberwein · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-17 18:40:47Z

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The read.csv() function has a "stringAsFactors" argument that you can set to FLASE.

input <- read.csv("names.txt", stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

answered Jun 17, 2015 at 18:40

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