Changing factor data

Posted by Barbara Pavliakova Walters

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  • November 10, 2015 at 9:37 pm EST #9671
    Barbara Pavliakova Walters
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    So I did as.numeric(as.factor(data)) on my data, but it didn’t come out right – help!

    November 15, 2015 at 10:23 pm EST #9712
    siddhu25
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    Hi Barbara,

    Could you please try below and let me know this is working for you.

    indx <- sapply(data, is.factor)
    data[indx] <- ldply(data[indx], function(x) as.numeric(as.character(x)))

    December 15, 2015 at 6:40 am EST #10052
    Barbara Pavliakova Walters
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    Thank you! That works 🙂

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