and then, if you want a matrix and not a data.frame :

TEST <- as.matrix(TEST)


2005/12/8, David Hajage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> A way to do it :
>
> TEST$Y3[TEST$Y3=="Z"] <- NA
>
> TEST$Y3 <- as.numeric(TEST$Y3)
>
>
> 2005/12/8, zhihua li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > hi netters,
> >
> > i have a dataframe TEST like this:
> >
> >   Y1 Y2 Y3
> > X1  4  7  8
> > X2  6  2  Z
> > X3  8  0  1
> >
> > i would like to change it to a numeric matrix, replacing "Z" with NA
> >
> >   Y1 Y2 Y3
> > X1  4  7  8
> > X2  6  2  NA
> > X3  8  0  1
> >
> > i've tried the function data.matrix but it didn't work. is there any
> > easy
> > way to do this?
> >
> > thanks a lot!
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
> David




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