R/pd_coerceFactorsToChar.R

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#' coerceFactorsToChar: convert all factor type fields to characters 
#' 
#' @param DF Input dataframe 
#' @return \code{DF} with factor fields converted to character type
#' @examples 
#' \dontrun{coerceFactorsToChar(iris)}

coerceFactorsToChar<-function(DF){
  
DF<-data.frame(sapply(DF, function(x) if (collapseClasses(x)=="factor") {as.character(x)} else {x}, simplify= FALSE), stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

return(DF)
}