[R] How to convert Charagter variables into numeric

[Karina Knaus]

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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