[R] as.numeric : what goes wrong?

[jim holtman]

Do an 'str' on the vector.  Are you sure it is not a 'factor'?

Try:

as.numeric(as.character(j1[1]))



On 8/24/07, Wolfgang Polasek <wolfgang.polasek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a character vector j1 created from dimnames and want it to convert it
> to numeric.
> Like the first element:
>
> > j1[1]
>  f896
> 1  896
>
> > as.numeric(j1[1])
> [1] 1990
>
> why is it not 896 as it should be?
> This is true fr the whole vector.
>
> Thanks
> W.P.
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What is the problem you are trying to solve?