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[Ista Zahn]

Hi Andreas,
if your factor is named "x", you can do
as.numeric(as.character(x))

Best,
Ista
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Emanuelsson
<Andreas.Emanuelsson at sik.se> wrote:
> Hi, I have tried to load a file originally from Excel, via csv, text and clipboard today.
>
> When I succeed I cannot change the format from "factor", and when I try to convert it to numerical it only gives the position of the "factor-group", not the real value in the column?
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> Any quick suggestions?
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> Andreas
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