[R] Odp: How to read percentage and currency data?

[Petr PIKAL]

Hi

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 24.02.2010 13:45:59:

> 
> Petr, I've tried that conversion but I get only rounded integer values. 
So
> 585% becomes 6 , 101% becomes 1 etc.

You most probably used only as.numeric(some.data), without stripping off a 
percent sign and you got numeric representation of factor values to which 
data were transformed during import.

First you need to get rid of "%" either by Ista's solution or mine. You 
shall get vector of class character and only than you can use as.numeric.

Regards
Petr

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> I've also tried as.double and as.real but still get the same results.
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