as_numeric: Coerce object to a numeric vector

In mclm: Mastering Corpus Linguistics Methods

Coerce object to a numeric vector

Description

This generic method turns its first argument x or at least part of the information in it into a numeric object. It is an alternative notation for base::as.numeric().

Usage

as_numeric(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
as_numeric(x, ...)

Arguments

x	An object to coerce.
...	Additional arguments.

Value

A numeric vector.

Examples

(flist <- freqlist(tokenize("The old story of the old man and the sea.")))

# extract frequency counts from a frequency list
as_numeric(flist)
as.numeric(flist)

# preferable alternative
type_freqs(flist)

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