if you use read.table for the import, reading about the colClasses parameter in ?read.table may help.
vQ > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:50:38, <arup.pramani...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I am importing a dataset in R where some of the variable are numerical >> > and > >> some of them are character...but the problem is that R is treating >> numerical variables as character (I am using "is.character" to judge the >> type). Now the question is how can I convert these character variables >> > into > >> numeric and also let me know about the other conversion like "numeric to >> categorical","numeric to continuous" etc.Thank you. >> >> Arup >> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
