Re: [R] R as.numeric()

2011-05-25 Thread David Winsemius
On May 25, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Lutz Fischer wrote: Thanks a lot for both replies. If I setup the option as proposed everything works as I wanted it to. I guess as.character would work as well. Only then I guess I would need to loop through the data frame. as.character is vectorized. You

Re: [R] R as.numeric()

2011-05-25 Thread Lutz Fischer
Thanks a lot for both replies. If I setup the option as proposed everything works as I wanted it to. I guess as.character would work as well. Only then I guess I would need to loop through the data frame. Lutz On 24/05/11 22:42, Ista Zahn wrote: > This is a FAQ: > > http://cran.r-project.org

Re: [R] R as.numeric()

2011-05-24 Thread Ista Zahn
This is a FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-do-I-convert-factors-to-numeric_003f Please try there before posting a question to the list. Best, Ista On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:33 PM, David Scott wrote: > On 25/05/2011 9:20 a.m., Lutz Fischer wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a bit

Re: [R] R as.numeric()

2011-05-24 Thread Timothy Bates
On 24 May 2011, at 10:20 PM, Lutz Fischer wrote: > n<-data.matrix(s); > > s[1,2] > [1] 30.94346629 # 3136 Levels: 0.026307482 > turned into: > > n[1,2] > [1] 3020 Dear Lutz, “3020” is the factor level associated with 30.94346629, in turn generated by importing with strings in the column Try pas

Re: [R] R as.numeric()

2011-05-24 Thread David Scott
On 25/05/2011 9:20 a.m., Lutz Fischer wrote: Hi, I have a bit of a problem with as.numeric or as.double. I read in an excel-file (either xlsx::read.xlsx2 or gdata::read.xls). Select a subset and then try to make it numeric: # read in the excel-file alldata<-read.xlsx2("input.xls",1) # select

[R] R as.numeric()

2011-05-24 Thread Lutz Fischer
Hi, I have a bit of a problem with as.numeric or as.double. I read in an excel-file (either xlsx::read.xlsx2 or gdata::read.xls). Select a subset and then try to make it numeric: # read in the excel-file alldata<-read.xlsx2("input.xls",1) # select the subset s<-subset(alldata, select=c("cI","c