setcolclass.df: Function to set the class of columns in a data.frame

In bhklab/genefu: Computation of Gene Expression-Based Signatures in Breast Cancer

Function to set the class of columns in a data.frame

Description

This function enables to set the class of each column in a data.frame.

Usage

setcolclass.df(df, colclass, factor.levels)

Arguments

df	data.frame for which columns' class need to be updated.
colclass	class for each column of the data.frame.
factor.levels	list of levels for each factor.

Value

A data.frame with columns' class and levels properly set

Examples

tt <- data.frame(matrix(NA, nrow=3, ncol=3, dimnames=list(1:3, paste("column", 1:3, sep="."))), 
  stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
tt <- setcolclass.df(df=tt, colclass=c("numeric", "factor", "character"), 
  factor.levels=list(NULL, c("F1", "F2", "F3"), NULL))

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