Konrad wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to convert a character to a number with out getting a warning? 
>  I have a vector that has both numbers and letters in it and I need to 
> convert it to only numbers.  At the moment I'm using as.numeric but it is 
> generating a warning when it converts a letter.  Is there another function 
> out there that will do what I need or is there a way to turn off the warnings 
> as I don't want the warning to be displayed to the end user?

?options

options(warn = -1)

as.numeric(c("1","A","2"))
[1]  1 NA  2

options(warn = 0) # return to default

> Konrad Hammel
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