[R] Removing Double Quotations After Using Cbind

[Jeff Newmiller]

Arrays must all be the same type. Data frame columns may be of differing types. Try to avoid creating a matrix and converting it to a data frame.

 a<- data.frame(name=c(2,2,"X"), value=c(,1:3,2:4), as.is=TRUE)
str(a)
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Joshua Budman <josh.budman at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I am trying to process genomics data and the presence of both  
>characters and integers in an array is giving issues. The following is 
>
>an example:
> > a<-array(c(2,2,"X",1:3,2:4),dim=c(3,3))
> > b<-cbind(a[,1],a[,2])
>With the output being:
>      [,1] [,2]
>[1,] "2"  "1"
>[2,] "2"  "2"
>[3,] "X"  "3"
>
>Is there any way for me to remove the quotation marks from every  
>integer/character in the new array? Or, is there a way to create the  
>new array without getting the quotation marks?
>
>Regards,
>Josh
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