dfc2num: Convert columns to numeric.

In tsieger/tsiMisc: Miscelaneous utility functions, mostly related to exploratory statistical analysis

Convert columns to numeric.

Description

dfc2num converts data frame (or matrix) columns to numeric type. Factors get converted to its numeric representation, textual representation of numbers get converted back to numbers, other texts get converted to factor and then to its numeric codes, and other types get converted using as.numeric().

Usage

dfc2num(x)

Arguments

x

Author(s)

Tomas Sieger

Examples

x<-data.frame(a=1:3,b=factor(c('a1','a2','a2')))
dfc2num(x)

x<-data.frame(a=1:3,b=c('1','2','2'))
dfc2num(x)

x<-cbind(matrix(1:4,2),c('a','b'))
dfc2num(x)

x<-cbind(c(1,2,NA,Inf),c('a','b','d','c'))
dfc2num(x)

x<-data.frame(num=c(1,2,NA,Inf),text=c('a','b','d','c'))
dfc2num(x)

tsieger/tsiMisc documentation built on Oct. 10, 2023, 10:24 p.m.