On 4/27/2006 5:24 PM, Paulo Brando wrote: > Dear all, > > Is there a way of keeping the actual information in a factor when > converting it to numeric? > > Example: > > What I want: > > as.numeric(factor(5:10)) > 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 > > > How R works: > >> as.numeric(factor(5:10)) #R example on 'as.numeric' > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 > > Thank you very much.
Convert to character first: > as.numeric(as.character(factor(5:10))) [1] 5 6 7 8 9 10 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
