[R] comma as a seperator to numeric

Ivan Calandra ivan.calandra at u-bourgogne.fr
Wed Nov 28 10:50:48 CET 2012


Hi Mat,

You could first replace your commas with points using gsub().
Or you could import your data differently (using read.csv2() for example)

See ?gsub and ?read.csv

HTH,
Ivan

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Le 28/11/12 09:03, Mat a écrit :
> Hello together,
>
> i have a big problem, to convert a column in my data.frame to numeric.
>
> I have:
> 61,13 in the column and write:
> data$PT_DL<-as.numeric(as.character(data$PT_DL))
>
> the result is NA, not a point seperated number.
>
> How can i change the data to an as.numeric number?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Mat
>
>
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