On Apr 1, 2014 7:48 PM, "Sandip Nandi" <sanna...@umail.iu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi ,
>
> I want to know is this behavior expected and why is that ? Need some help
>
> gender <- c("F", "M", "M", "F", "F", "M", "F", "F")
> > age <- c(23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37)
> > df<- data.frame(gender,age)
> > typeof(df[[1]])
> [1] "integer" >>>>>>>>>>>>> Why is this integer . *Should not it be
> character ?*
> > typeof(df[[2]])
> [1] "double"
>
> > typeof(gender)
> [1] "character"
> > typeof(age)
> [1] "double"
> >
>
> In my code i am trying to do some thing based on typeof and the type for
> character column is strange.
>
The first column is coerced to factor when stringsAsFactors=TRUE, which is
the default for data.frame. See ?data.frame.
> Thanks,
> Sandip
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