[R] convert numeric variables to factor

[Eric Berger]

You are missing a comma between "MARITAL" and "JOBSTATUS".

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Saif Tauheed <saif.tauheed using gmail.com>
wrote:

> I run this command for converting the numerical variable into factor.
> However, I get the following error message.
>
> > cols<- c(“GrMM", "RELG", "CASTE1", "SECTOR", "SECTOR4","AGE", "MARITAL"
> "JOBSTATUS", "ENG", "EDU", "PARENT_EDU", "MASSMEDIA_F", "MASSMEDIA_M",
> "HomeComputer", "HomeInternet") for (i in cols) {data.frame[,i]=
> as.factor(data.frame[,i])}
>
>
> Error: unexpected string constant in “cols<- c(“GrMM", "RELG", "CASTE1",
> "SECTOR", "SECTOR4","AGE", "MARITAL" "JOBSTATUS""
>
> Please help.
>
> Regards
> Afzal
>
>
> > On 10-Apr-2018, at 12:14 AM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Though Bert's and David's answers are what you should do, note that some
> R functions that need factors will coerce their input variables when
> necessary.
> > Have you tried to run the code you haven't posted without coercing to
> factor? It might run...
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Rui Barradas
> >
> > On 4/9/2018 6:11 PM, David L Carlson wrote:
> >> Try the help files:
> >> ?factor
> >> ----------------------------------------
> >> David L Carlson
> >> Department of Anthropology
> >> Texas A&M University
> >> College Station, TX 77843-4352
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Saif Tauheed
> >> Sent: Monday, April 9, 2018 11:29 AM
> >> To: r-help using r-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [R] convert numeric variables to factor
> >> Dear Sir,
> >> I have xlsx data set which I have imported to R studio. Now some of the
> variables are defined as numeric but I want define them as factor variable
> so that I run classification algorithm in R.
> >> Please to covert the variables.
> >> Thanks and Regards
> >> Abu Afzal
> >> PhD Eco
> >> JNU
> >> India
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