Hi
Please include context.
Your "numbers" are not numbers. They are strings in csv file e.g. "1,200,300"
and are converted to factors during reading.
First do not convert them to factors by stringsAsfactors=FALSE option in
read.table.
If you are sure that all commas are thousands separators (in my country comma
is used as decimal point) you can do
as.numeric(paste(unlist(strsplit("1,200,300", ",")), collapse=""))
or
tonum <- fumction (x) as.numeric(paste(unlist(strsplit(x, ",")), collapse=""))
tonum(some column of values)
Regards
Petr
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> The table is much bigger than what was shown. I just displayed a few
> rows.
> Seems like there should be a better way that the approach you are
> proposing.
> What is also not clear to me is why the factors are coming at all. I do
> a read.csv on a table full of numbers from excel and I'm seeing factors
> everywhere.
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