to.matrix: 'S3' generic; convert to matrix *move* column to 'rownames'

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S3 generic; convert to matrix move column to rownames

Description

Useful when working with data.tables; cannot have rownames. Other methods (as.matrix, data.table::setDF) allow to convert to a data.frame but then another step is necessary to move an identifier column to rownames. This function allows the two in one step.

Usage

to.matrix(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'data.table'
to.matrix(x, id.col = NULL, drop.id.col = TRUE)

Arguments

x	type: data.table A data.table object with an identifier column.
...

Value

matrix

Author(s)

Dereck de Mezquita

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