[R] automatic coercion to character

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 1, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Lorenzo Cattarino wrote:

> Hi R users
>
> I am wondering how I can avoid automatic coercion of my numeric vector
> elements to character

Stop giving character arguments .

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> init <- c(age='N', R=as.numeric(0.5), S=as.numeric(0.8))

If you want a multi-mode object, use a list.

 > init <- list(age='N', R=as.numeric(0.5), S=as.numeric(0.8))
 > init
$age
[1] "N"

$R
[1] 0.5

$S
[1] 0.8

Vectors can only contain elements of a single mode.

-- 
David.
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> I have used as.numeric() but it does not seem to work
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> Thank you
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> Lorenzo
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