[R] How do I coerce numeric factor columns of data frame to vector?

[Murray Jorgensen]

I have just noticed that quite a few columns of a data frame that I am 
working on are numeric factors. For summary() purposes I want them to be 
vectors. I tried, for example

 > indx <- c(1:18,21:37,40,41)
 > i <- 0
 > i <- i+1
 > summary(as.vector(sflows1[indx[i]]))
            Length Class  Mode
min.pkt.sz 3000   factor numeric

but this does not give the five-number summary that I want. I know that 
I can go back and modify read.table() to change the class of the 
columns, but I want to change the frame without re-reading it.

Murray

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