setcolclass.df: Function to set the class of columns in a data.frame

In genefu: Computation of Gene Expression-Based Signatures in Breast Cancer

Description

This function enables to set the class of each culumn in a data.frame

Usage

setcolclass.df(df, colclass, factor.levels)

Arguments

df	data.frame for which columns' class need to be updated
colclass	class for each column of the data.frame
factor.levels	list of levels for each factor

Value

A data.frame with columns' class and levels properly set

Author(s)

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

Examples

tt <- data.frame(matrix(NA, nrow=3, ncol=3, dimnames=list(1:3, paste("column", 1:3, sep="."))), 
stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
tt <- setcolclass.df(df=tt, colclass=c("numeric", "factor", "character"), 
factor.levels=list(NULL, c("F1", "F2", "F3"), NULL))

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