Re: [R] Loop for converting character columns to Numeric

2013-08-26 Thread farnoosh sheikhi
Thanks a lot. That works great. I have another question, I will send you another email.   Best,Farnoosh Sheikhi Cc: R help Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 12:06 PM Subject: Re: Loop for converting character columns to Numeric Hi, Suppose you created a datafr

Re: [R] Loop for converting character columns to Numeric

2013-08-26 Thread arun
Hi, Suppose you created a dataframe like this: set.seed(28)   dat1<-as.data.frame(simplify2array(list(letters[1:5],sample(1:20,5,replace=TRUE),6:10)),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)  str(dat1) #'data.frame':    5 obs. of  3 variables: # $ V1: chr  "a" "b" "c" "d" ... # $ V2: chr  "1" "2" "10" "18" ... #