when to export a numbers file to csv the minus signs don't work with R

Thanks, well we solved the prblem but in a lillte bit of an awkward way.

The problem is that the minus sugns in numbers is percieved as dashes in R

(http://www.R-project.org, a free-ware statistical analysis program, as an implementation of S programming language )

So where there is a numeric input with a minus sign R thinks it is a letter rather than a number.

We solved it by exporting the numbers file to CSV, opened it in text editor, copied the suspisios minus sign and pasted it into the search field to find all dashes/minus sign that didn't work and replaced them with a minus sign. After this operation, nothing different could be seen in the text but R saw the difference.

So this makes it difficult to explain by posting a screenshot - it looks the same but it isn't.

The funny thing is that the dashes that numbers use when to express a date are percieved as minus signs by R. And there is obiously a difference also in the text files as the dashes can be replaced by minus signs.

Can anyone understand what I just tried to explain? And if so, is there a simpler way to do this? We have a lot of minus signs to export to R..... Or could one hope for an update where this is solved by Apple?

best regard

Joachim

Wayne, actually, I'm not sure but I think that factoric - or factorial is the denomination that R uses to say that somthing is rather a text than a numeric number - I'm pretty new to R.

But, anyway, we solved the problem but in a lillte bit of an awkward way.

The problem is that the minus sugns in numbers is percieved as dashes in R

(http://www.R-project.org, a free-ware statistical analysis program)

So where there is a numeric input with a minus sign R thinks it is a letter rather than a number.

We solved it by exporting the numbers file to CSV, opened it in text editor, copied the suspisios minus sign and pasted it into the search field to find all dashes/minus sign that didn't work and replaced them with a minus sign. After this operation, nothing different could be seen in the text but R saw the difference.

So this makes it difficult to explain by posting a screenshot - it looks the same but it isn't.

The funny thing is that the dashes that numbers use when to express a date are percieved as minus signs by R.

Can anyone understand what I tried to explain? And if so, is there a simpler way to do this? We have a lot of minus signs to export to R.....

best regard

Joachim