dfFactor2Str: Convert factor columns in a data.frame into character strings

In ribiosUtils: Utilities from and Interface to the Bioinfo-C (BIOS) Library

Description

Convert factor columns in a data.frame into character strings

Usage

dfFactor2Str(df)

Arguments

df	A data.frame

Value

A data.frame with factor columns coereced into character strings

Examples

exampleDf <- data.frame(Teams=c("HSV", "FCB", "FCB", "HSV"), 
             Player=c("Mueller", "Mueller", "Robben", "Holtby"), 
             scores=c(3.5, 1.5, 1.5, 1.0), stringsAsFactors=TRUE)
strDf <- dfFactor2Str(exampleDf)
stopifnot(identical(strDf[,1], c("HSV", "FCB", "FCB", "HSV")))
stopifnot(identical(exampleDf[,1], factor(c("HSV", "FCB", "FCB", "HSV"))))

ribiosUtils documentation built on March 13, 2020, 2:54 a.m.