[R] Problems changing to number from character

[jim holtman]

If it is a factor, you have to convert to character first and then numeric:

d <- as.numeric(as.character(b))

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Carlos Morales
<carlosmoralesdiego at yahoo.es> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First of all, thanks for your examples to calculate the mode value. But now my problem is the next:
>
> I have a factor and I'm trying to convert it to number with as.numeric(x) but when I see the number it's different, I mean if I have:
>
> b<-1,042
> d<-as.numeric(b)
>
> then when I show d, it appears 432 and I want to work with 1,042 because then I want to calculate the median of three values
>
>
> Thanks so much
> Carlos
>
>
>
>
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