[R] double matrix?

[David Carlson]

It is hard to understand that your R code will not work with a
double matrix since double is just short for double precision
floating point matrix. Your only alternative would be integer.

>From ?numeric

"It is a historical anomaly that R has two names for its
floating-point vectors, double and numeric (and formerly had
real).

"double is the name of the type. numeric is the name of the
mode and also of the implicit class."

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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352

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Subject: [R] double matrix?

Hi-

I have a 37 X 473971 character matrix that I am trying to
convert into a 
numeric matrix. When I use the code:

 class(matrix) = "numeric"  

I end up with something called a "double matrix" whose
dimensions are still 
37 X 473971

I have also tried 

new = apply(matrix,2, as.numeric) and got the same thing.

The analysis code I am ultimately attempting to run on this
data requires 
that it be in a numerical matrix, and it is really not okay
with a double 
matrix.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.

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