On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 12:46, Sebastian <i...@quandbee.com> wrote: > I am new to julia so i might ask a strange question. > So far i've been programming quite smoothly, but type managing leads me > astray.
Good to have you on board! Note that most discussion has moved to https://discourse.julialang.org/, better post there in the future. > I have 1d arrays i want to apply a confusion matrix function to from the > MLBase library. > http://mlbasejl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/perfeval.html > > However i have unmatching types. > > typeof(y1) > > Array{String,1}: > > typeof(y2) > Array{Any,1} > > > When i apply the confusion matrix on those variables: > > k=4 > confusmat(k, y1, y2) > > > i get: > > LoadError: MethodError: no method matching confusmat(::Int64, > ::Array{String,1}, ::Array{Any,1}) > Closest candidates are: > > > > So now i probably need to convert y2 to a Array{String,1} > I can't find out how to convert y2 to Array{String,1} > Can anyone please help? julia> Any["dasf"] 1-element Array{Any,1}: "dasf" julia> convert(Vector{String}, ans) 1-element Array{String,1}: "dasf" But probably you should make sure that y2 is Vector{String} from the start. (Note Vector{String}==Array{String,1})