R/col2char.R

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#'Transform defined columns to character.
#'
#' @description
#' col2char transform columns type to character.
#'
#' @param x a dataframe
#' @param start number of start column
#' @param end number of last column (default=last)
#'
#' @return Return a dataframe with transformed columns.
#' @export
#'
#' @examples
#' v=data.frame(c(3,2,5,6,5,4))
#' class(v[,1]) #here class is numeric
#' v=col2char(v,1)
#' class(v[,1]) #now class is character
#'
col2char=function(x,start,end=ncol(x)){
    a=x
    a[,start:end]=sapply(a[,start:end],FUN = as.character)
    return(a)
}