massConvertToNumeric: Converting many dataframe columns to numeric

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Converting many dataframe columns to numeric

Description

This function makes it easy to convert many dataframe columns to numeric.

Usage

massConvertToNumeric(
  dat,
  byFactorLabel = FALSE,
  ignoreCharacter = TRUE,
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)

Arguments

dat	The dataframe with the columns.
byFactorLabel	When converting factors, whether to do this by their label value (TRUE) or their level value (FALSE).
ignoreCharacter	Whether to convert (FALSE) or ignore (TRUE) character vectors.
stringsAsFactors	In the returned dataframe, whether to return string (character) vectors as factors or not.

Value

A data.frame.

Examples

### Create a dataset
a <- data.frame(var1 = factor(1:4),
                var2 = as.character(5:6),
                stringsAsFactors=FALSE);

### Ignores var2
b <- ufs::massConvertToNumeric(a);

### Converts var2
c <- ufs::massConvertToNumeric(a,
                               ignoreCharacter = FALSE);

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