ices
-Original Message-
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 1:52 PM
To: jim holtman; Arun84441
Cc: R mailing list
Subject: Re: [R] Convert character Variables to numeric
I agree that having a few (5-20 perhaps) rows of
In addition to what Jim and Jeff said, I would suggest trying this:
tmp <- is.na(V)
## then
head(Mac$TOTALFRT[tmp])
## or
head( V[tmp] )
This will show you the first few rows of the values which you think should
be numeric but are not.
Hopefully, you will be able to see why they are not numeric.
I agree that having a few (5-20 perhaps) rows of the data is essential to give
you appropriate help. Be warned that files with extension ".CSV" (or must
others as well) don't make it through the mailing list filters, so be sure to
read the Posting Guide and either change the name of the file so
Please provide a sample of the data that you are trying to convert. BTW
does it have commas in numeric values, or what else is strange about the
data. The error message is very clear in the column of data that you are
trying to convert is not numeric.
Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru
What is the p
I have imported the csv file having 398800 obs of 30 variables. There is a
variable "TOTALFRT" which is showing as character in R environment. I am
trying to convert it to numeric by using as.numeric function.
Wherein function is converting character to numeric but with an error
message "Warning me
5 matches
Mail list logo
