Description Usage Arguments Value Examples
Forcing the character/string data type on a selected set of columns of a data.table object
1 | asCharacterDT(inputDT, colNamesToBeTransformed = NULL)
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inputDT |
data.table object containing the data of interest. This is an obligatory argument, without default value. |
colNamesToBeTransformed |
Character vector containing potential column names of the 'inputDT' argument. The default value is NULL. |
No value is returned. Note that a valid value needs to be supplied to the 'colNamesToBeTransformed' argument in order to make this function work.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | library(data.table)
inputDT <- as.data.table(data.frame(x = seq(1, 20, 2), y = LETTERS[1:10]))
asFactorDT(inputDT, c('y'))
asCharacterDT(inputDT)
asCharacterDT(inputDT, c('x', 'y'))
# First looking at the result, followed by testing if the transformation worked!
inputDT
isCharacterDT(inputDT, c('x', 'y'))
isFactorDT(inputDT, c('x', 'y'))
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