R/massConvertToNumeric.R
massConvertToNumeric.Rd
This function makes it easy to convert many dataframe columns to numeric.
massConvertToNumeric( dat, byFactorLabel = FALSE, ignoreCharacter = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE )
dat | The dataframe with the columns. |
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byFactorLabel | When converting factors, whether to do this
by their label value ( |
ignoreCharacter | Whether to convert ( |
stringsAsFactors | In the returned dataframe, whether to return string (character) vectors as factors or not. |
A data.frame.
### Create a dataset a <- data.frame(var1 = factor(1:4), var2 = as.character(5:6), stringsAsFactors=FALSE); ### Ignores var2 b <- ufs::massConvertToNumeric(a); ### Converts var2 c <- ufs::massConvertToNumeric(a, ignoreCharacter = FALSE);