On 09/02/2011 11:11 AM, koooee wrote:
is this the expected behavior of as.character ?
resultset is a data.frame from a sqlQuery() using RODBC
> a = as.character(as.vector(resultset[1]))
> a
[1] "c(-1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)"
I would expect the statement above to return similar to the result below, am
I missing something?
Yes, you should look at what
as.vector(resultset[1])
gives you. I think it is not what you expected. (Use str() to see that
it is still a data frame).
Duncan Murdoch
> as.character(c(-1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9))
[1] "-1" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9"
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