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On 17/11/2017 11:02, Petra Oleum wrote:
class("dat") is different from class(dat), which is what you actually want. On 17-11-17, P. Roberto Bakker wrote:Hi everybody, Question: why are my dataframe and numeric variables a character? I read an excel file via readxl but my dataframe is a character, and numeric variables, eg "yi", are also a character. My excelfile is in English numeric Sometimes the dataframe was indeed a dataframe, but I do not know why it did sometimes. Thank you in advance, Roberto PS I used "guess". The problem is not solve by using "text", "numeric" etc My syntax (I think I cannot send the excel file as binary?)library(readxl) library(readxl) library(metafor) setwd("C:/docs/Work2/Statistic_Analyses/MetaQTcAD") getwd()[1] "C:/docs/Work2/Statistic_Analyses/MetaQTcAD"dat <- read_excel("Hedges-g_QTc MA_R05.xlsx", sheet = 2, col_names=TRUE,col_types = c("guess"))class("dat")[1] "character"class("yi")[1] "character" [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
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