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Carl:

For general R problems this search engine will usually find what you 
need: http://www.rseek.org/   (the "Support Lists" tab often returns 
especially helpful results)

As for your specific problem, to convert object M to matrix do:
M<-as.matrix(M)


Anthon

Carl Nordlund wrote:
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> Dear all,
> I have recently installed the Windows client of the R language as I 
> would like to play around with some of the SNA algorithms found in 
> Žibernas blockmodeling package. One problem is that I simply don't 
> know R (yet), so I'm digesting the refence manuals as fast as possible.
>
> However, I guess there are plenty of SNA:ers who are using R in their 
> analyses. Is there a SNA-specific reference to be found somewhere? I 
> am certain that R is a very worthwhile language to learn - and I 
> intend to! - but I'm sort of stuck on simple things like how to 
> load/import network data into R... (I have tried using 
> M<-read.table('myTabSeparatedData') but it adds row and column headers 
> - plus that the resulting M object doesn't seem to be a Matrix object)
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Yours,
> Carl
>

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