setColClass: Set class of data frames columns

In inSileco/letiRmisc: inSileco Miscellaneous Functions

Set class of data frames columns

Description

This function is designed to ease the changes of column's class of a given data frame.

Usage

setColClass(x, colid, cls)

Arguments

x	a data frame or an R object to be coerced into a data frame.
colid	the identity of columns for which class are to be changed.
cls	a character vector containing the classes' names to be used in the same order as colid. By default, cls is repeated until its size equals colid's size.

Value

A data frame whose columns have the desired classes.

Examples

df1 <- matrix(signif(runif(20),4), ncol=2)
df2 <- setColClass(df1, 2, 'character')
str(df1)
str(df2)

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