Hi Jian,
Try
matrix(as.numeric(a), ncol = 2)
HTH,
Jorge
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Yuan Jian <> wrote:
> Hello R experts,
> can you tell me a simple way to convert a charactor matrix to numeric
> matrix?
> if I use as.numeric, the matrix is converted to a vector.
>
> a<-cbind(c("23","54","65"),c("1","2","3"))
> a
> [,1] [,2]
> [1,] "23" "1"
> [2,] "54" "2"
> [3,] "65" "3"
>
> as.numeric(a)
> [1] 23 54 65 1 2 3
>
> thanks
> Jian
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