[R] Converting a character vector to numeric

Christofer Bogaso bogaso.christofer at gmail.com
Sat Mar 23 20:51:26 CET 2013


Hello again,

Let say I have following vector:

Vec <- c("0.0365780769", "(1.09738648244378)", "(0.812507787221523)",
"0.5778069963", "(0.452456601362355)", "-1.8900812605", "-1.8716093762",
"0.0055217041", "-0.4769192333", "-2.4133018880")


Now I want to convert this vector to numeric vector. I am having
problem to doing so because there are some elements with "()" which
should be treated as negative.


Can somebody help me how to achieve that?

Thanks and regards,



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