Hi ,
I am concerned about the return value of typeof in character column in a
dataframe. I expect it to be of character ,it returns integer instead .
Thanks
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulr...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> 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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