fct_to_num: Factor to numeric

View source: R/fct_to_num.R

fct_to_numR Documentation

Factor to numeric

Description

Easily convert a factor to numeric without losing information.

Usage

fct_to_num(x)

Arguments

x

A factor.

Value

A numeric.

Examples


library(dplyr)
set.seed(1)
num <- rnorm(10)


# Without fct_to_numeric
data.frame(fac = factor(num)) %>%
 mutate(bad_num = as.numeric(fac))

# With fct_to_numeric
data.frame(fac = factor(num)) %>%
 mutate(good_num = fct_to_num(fac))

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