[R] Stucked with as.numeric function

2011-03-21 Thread patsko
Hi list, I have problems with the as.numeric function. I have imported probabilities from external data, but they are classified as factors as str() shows. Therefore my goal is to convert the colum from factor to numeric level with keeping the decimals. I have googled the problem for a while

Re: [R] Stucked with as.numeric function

2011-03-21 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 21, 2011, at 1:57 PM, pat...@gmx.de wrote: Hi list, I have problems with the as.numeric function. I have imported probabilities from external data, but they are classified as factors as str() shows. Therefore my goal is to convert the colum from factor to numeric level with

Re: [R] Stucked with as.numeric function

2011-03-21 Thread Tóth Dénes
Hi, I guess you have commas as decimals in your data. Replace it to decimal points. Best, Denes On Mar 21, 2011, at 1:57 PM, pat...@gmx.de wrote: Hi list, I have problems with the as.numeric function. I have imported probabilities from external data, but they are classified as

Re: [R] Stucked with as.numeric function

2011-03-21 Thread Kenn Konstabel
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:57 PM, pat...@gmx.de wrote: Hi list, I have problems with the as.numeric function. I have imported probabilities from external data, but they are classified as factors as str() shows. Therefore my goal is to convert the colum from factor to numeric level with

Re: [R] Stucked with as.numeric function

2011-03-21 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Tóth Dénes wrote: Hi, I guess you have commas as decimals in your data. Replace it to decimal points. If that is true then the easiest fix would be to set the proper decimal argument in read.table ?read.table # with ... , dec = , , -- david. Best,

Re: [R] Stucked with as.numeric function

2011-03-21 Thread Tóth Dénes
On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Tóth Dénes wrote: Hi, I guess you have commas as decimals in your data. Replace it to decimal points. If that is true then the easiest fix would be to set the proper decimal argument in read.table In this particular case, sure. If patsko happens to work