[R] automatic coercion to character

[Peter Alspach]

Tena koe Lorenz

c() combines the elements to form a vector and all elements of a vector must be of the same type.  If you elements of different types you need to use a list.  Note, a data.frame is a special type of list.

HTH ....

Peter Alspach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Cattarino
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 3:40 p.m.
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] automatic coercion to character
> 
> Hi R users
> 
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> I am wondering how I can avoid automatic coercion of my numeric vector
> elements to character
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> 
> init <- c(age='N', R=as.numeric(0.5), S=as.numeric(0.8))
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> I have used as.numeric() but it does not seem to work
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> Thank you
> 
> Lorenzo
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