You might want to try as.numeric(X), if you want to convert a factor then you could use as.numeric(as.character(X)), where X is a "variable".
Karina On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:50:38, <arup.pramani...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am importing a dataset in R where some of the variable are numerical and > some of them are character...but the problem is that R is treating > numerical variables as character (I am using "is.character" to judge the > type). Now the question is how can I convert these character variables into > numeric and also let me know about the other conversion like "numeric to > categorical","numeric to continuous" etc.Thank you. > > Arup > > -- ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
