gt; Behalf Of Arup
> Sent: February-06-09 1:51 AM
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] How to convert Charagter variables into numeric
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> 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 i
There is an issue that is being overlooked here.
The read.table() family of functions use type.convert() by default
internally to determine the resultant data types of the columns going
into the data frame from the source text file. Everything read in by
read.table() starts as character and then t
if you use read.table for the import, reading about the colClasses
parameter in ?read.table may help.
vQ
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:50:38, wrote:
>
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>> I am importing a dataset in R where some of the variable are numerical
>>
> and
>
>> some of them are character...but the problem is t
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, wrote:
> I am importing a dataset in R where some of the variable are numerical
and
> some of them are character
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
numeri
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