[R] lapply() not converting columns to factors (no error message)

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

Could it be you have "factor" redefined in your workspace? Have you
tried it in a clean directory? I.e. a directory where no .RData
exists?

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:07 AM, A Singh <Aditi.Singh at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> Oh, strange!
>
> I thought it might be a problem with the 'base' package installation,
> because the same thing's worked for me too before but won't do now.
>
> I tried to reinstall it (base), but R says its there already which I
> expected it to be anyway.
>
> I don't quite know where the issue is. Very odd.
>
>
> --On 16 November 2009 04:59 -0800 Sundar Dorai-Raj <sdorairaj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Works for me:
>>
>> x <-
>> read.csv(url("http://dc170.4shared.com/download/153147281/a5c78386/Testvc
>> omp10.csv?tsid=20091116-075223-c3093ab0")) names(x)
>> x[2:13] <- lapply(x[2:13], factor)
>>
>>> levels(x$P1L55)
>>
>> [1] "0" "1"
>>>
>>> is.factor(x$P1L96)
>>
>> [1] TRUE
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
>> i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] lattice_0.17-26
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.10.0  tools_2.10.0
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:50 AM, A Singh <Aditi.Singh at bristol.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, my file is at:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.4shared.com/file/153147281/a5c78386/Testvcomp10.html
>>>
>>>
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>
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> A Singh
> Aditi.Singh at bristol.ac.uk
> School of Biological Sciences
> University of Bristol
>
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