[R] Problem with converting factors to numbers

_Luc_ l.temarvelde at nioo.knaw.nl
Tue Sep 20 13:25:38 CEST 2011


ok great, as.numeric(as.character(data$x)) works perfectly.

I am sorry that i did not find this before making this post. 


@ peter
what did not work was:
data$x2 <- as.character(data$x) 
data$x3 <- as.numeric(data$x2) 

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