that worked, thank you very much
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:51:49 PM UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: > > Here's one way to do that: UTF8String[string(x) for x in df[:A]] > > -- John > > On Mar 11, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Jason Solack <jays...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > no, i'm sorry. I have a vector that's eltype is Float64, it has values > that i'd like to replace with the words that describe their values. right > now when assigning them i'm getting errors since it's type is Float and it > needs to be string. > > > > so i'd like to convert the first column in the dataframe to an eltype of > string so i can replace the numeric values with strings > > > > On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:37:56 PM UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: > > I'm not totally sure what you mean. A column of a DataFrame is a vector, > so one natural way to convert the column to a string would be to join all > of the entries using join: > > > > using DataFrames > > df = DataFrame(A = 1:10) > > join(df[:A], "::") > > > > Is that what you're looking for? > > > > -- John > > > > On Mar 11, 2014, at 6:35 PM, Jason Solack <jays...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So this seems like silly question, but i'm looking to convert a column > in a dataframe to a string and I don't see how to do that. > > > > > > Any help? > > > > > > Thank you! > > > > > > Jason > > > >
