as.fumeric: converts to factor and then numeric

In rafalib: Convenience Functions for Routine Data Exploration

Description

Converts a vector of characters into factors and then converts these into numeric.

Usage

as.fumeric(x, levels = unique(x))

Arguments

x	a character vector
levels	the leves to be used in the call to factor

Author(s)

Rafael A. Irizarry

Examples

group = c("a","a","b","b")
plot(seq_along(group),col=as.fumeric(group))

Example output

rafalib documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:26 p.m.