[R] as.numeric question

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 4/27/2006 5:24 PM, Paulo Brando wrote:
> Dear all, 
>  
> Is there a way of keeping the actual information in a factor when
> converting it to numeric? 
>  
> Example:
>  
> What I want:
>  
> as.numeric(factor(5:10))
> 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
>  
>  
> How R works:
>  
>>    as.numeric(factor(5:10)) #R example on 'as.numeric'
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
>  
> Thank you very much.

Convert to character first:

 > as.numeric(as.character(factor(5:10)))
[1]  5  6  7  8  9 10