data.frame.to_matrix: Convert a dataframe to matrix

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Convert a dataframe to matrix

Description

Convert a dataframe to matrix.

Usage

data.frame.to_matrix(x,col.names = NULL,row.names = NULL)

Arguments

x	A Numeric matrix with data and NAs.
col.names	A boolean value for keeping the colnames for argument x or a character vector for the new colnames.
row.names	A boolean value for keeping the rownames for argument x or a character vector for the new rownames.

Details

This functions converts a dataframe to matrix. Even if there are factors, the function converts them into numerical values. Attributes are not allowed for now.

Value

A matrix wich has the numrical values from the dataframe.

Author(s)

Manos Papadakis

R implementation and documentation: Manos Papadakis <[e-mail]>

See Also

Match, is.symmetric, permutation

Examples

res<-data.frame.to_matrix(iris)

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