See comment inline below:
On 8/18/2018 10:06 PM, Rui Barradas wrote:
Hello,
It also works with class "factor":
df <- data.frame(variable = c("12.6%", "30.9%", "61.4%"))
class(df$variable)
#[1] "factor"
as.numeric(gsub(pattern = "%", "", df$variable))
#[1] 12.6 30.9 61.4
This is because sub() and gsub() return a character vector and the
instruction becomes an equivalent of what the help page ?factor
documents in section Warning:
To transform a factor f to approximately its original numeric values,
as.numeric(levels(f))[f] is recommended and slightly more efficient than
as.numeric(as.character(f)).
Also, I would still prefer
as.numeric(sub(pattern = "%$","",df$variable))
#[1] 12.6 30.9 61.4
The pattern is more strict and there is no need to search&replace
multiple occurrences of '%'.
The pattern is more strict, and that could cause the conversion to fail
if the process that created the strings resulted in trailing spaces.
Without the '$' the conversion succeeds.
df <- data.frame(variable = c("12.6% ", "30.9%", "61.4%"))
as.numeric(sub('%$', '', df$variable))
[1] NA 30.9 61.4
Warning message:
NAs introduced by coercion
<<<snip>>>
Dan
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