data.matrix() should do the job for you Charles
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:02 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > It is not clear whether all the variables are factor or only a few are.. > > dat<- read.table(text="a coef > coef.l coef.h > 1 1 0.005657825001254 0.00300612956318132 0.00830952043932667 > 2 2 0.00634505314577229 0.00334102345418614 0.00934908283735844 > 3 3 0.00368668099805019 0.000289702228748421 0.00708365976735195 > 4 4 0.0056200291035751 0.00209123538827368 0.00914882281887651 > 5 5 0.00636609791030242 0.00269683889899591 > 0.0100353569216089",sep="",colClasses=rep("factor",4)) > dat1<- dat > > > dat[] <- lapply(dat,function(x) as.numeric(as.character(x))) > > str(dat) > #'data.frame': 5 obs. of 4 variables: > # $ a : num 1 2 3 4 5 > # $ coef : num 0.00566 0.00635 0.00369 0.00562 0.00637 > # $ coef.l: num 0.00301 0.00334 0.00029 0.00209 0.0027 > # $ coef.h: num 0.00831 0.00935 0.00708 0.00915 0.01004 > > > # With only a subset of variables in the dataset as factors > dat1$a<- as.numeric(as.character(dat1$a)) > > > dat1[sapply(dat1,is.factor)]<- > lapply(dat1[sapply(dat1,is.factor)],function(x) as.numeric(as.character(x))) > str(dat1) > #'data.frame': 5 obs. of 4 variables: > # $ a : num 1 2 3 4 5 > # $ coef : num 0.00566 0.00635 0.00369 0.00562 0.00637 > # $ coef.l: num 0.00301 0.00334 0.00029 0.00209 0.0027 > # $ coef.h: num 0.00831 0.00935 0.00708 0.00915 0.01004 > > A.K. > > > > I have a factor data frame which I want to convert to numeric without any > change in contents. How could I do that? > > > a coef coef.l coef.h > 1 1 0.005657825001254 0.00300612956318132 0.00830952043932667 > 2 2 0.00634505314577229 0.00334102345418614 0.00934908283735844 > 3 3 0.00368668099805019 0.000289702228748421 0.00708365976735195 > 4 4 0.0056200291035751 0.00209123538827368 0.00914882281887651 > 5 5 0.00636609791030242 0.00269683889899591 0.0100353569216089 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.