Hi,

I have an accounting data with "%" at the end and "()" for negative.
E.g.  if I read in with read.table, then R reads in as a factor:

[11625] 4.61%    ( 4.11%) 29.85%   ( 1.27%) 16.04%   21.31%   14.09%
39.71%
[11633] 3.03%    17.39%   80.13%
6648 Levels:  ( 0.00%) ( 0.03%) ( 0.04%) ( 0.05%) ( 0.06%) ( 0.07%) ...
99.70%
And I was wondering how to convert this column into numeric numbers in R?

Thanks a lot!

Young

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