Hi, I have a column which I have to convert from factors to numeric. I am using the command as.numeric(variable) to do this. But when I convert the numeric value becomes different from factor . for example.
> class(B) [1] "factor" > B [1] 180 <NA> 183 175 163 155 <NA> 188 191 160 170 165 152 170 165 [16] 163 160 163 165 <NA> > as.numeric(B) [1] 46 NA 47 42 30 26 NA 49 50 29 37 32 24 37 32 30 29 30 32 NA Is there a different way to convert factor to respective number ? also when i try to unclass it i get following output > unclass(B) [1] 46 NA 47 42 30 26 NA 49 50 29 37 32 24 37 32 30 29 30 32 NA attr(,"levels") [1] "102" "104" "107" "109" "110" "112" "114" "117" "119" "122" "124" "125" [13] "127" "129" "130" "132" "135" "137" "140" "142" "145" "147" "150" "152" [25] "153" "155" "157" "159" "160" "163" "164" "165" "166" "167" "168" "169" [37] "170" "171" "172" "173" "174" "175" "177" "178" "179" "180" "183" "185" [49] "188" "191" "193" "196" "198" "201" "203" "211" "46" "48" "51" "56" [61] "58" "60" "61" "63" "64" "65" "66" "69" "71" "74" "76" "79" [73] "81" "84" "86" "89" "91" "94" "97" "99" "U" Any help will be appreciated. Thanks a lot. Regards, Nataraju GM -- "No relationship is Static .. You either Step up or Step down" [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.