How to convert a factor to numeric is one of the questions (with answers) in R's FAQ.
Assuming you don't need to do this again, I would just convert what you have imported. Otherwise, explore the max.value.labels argument of read.spss. On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Silika Tereshchenko wrote: > I have the following problem. I have to import the dataset (survey) from SPSS > into R-programm. By using the "read.spss" the all of variables have been readed > as factor. I need the variables "income" and "age" as numeric for the > regreesion analysis. Could you plese help me. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
