How to convert Charagter variables into numeric
You might want to try as.numeric(X), if you want to convert a factor then you could use as.numeric(as.character(X)), where X is a "variable". Karina
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:50:38, <arup.pramanik27 at gmail.com> wrote:
I am importing a dataset in R where some of the variable are numerical
and
some of them are character...but the problem is that R is treating numerical variables as character (I am using "is.character" to judge the type). Now the question is how can I convert these character variables
into
numeric and also let me know about the other conversion like "numeric to categorical","numeric to continuous" etc.Thank you. Arup
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