On 31-Jan-07 Konrad wrote: > Hello, > Is there a way to convert a character to a number with out getting a > warning? I have a vector that has both numbers and letters in it and I > need to convert it to only numbers. At the moment I'm using as.numeric > but it is generating a warning when it converts a letter. Is there > another function out there that will do what I need or is there a way > to turn off the warnings as I don't want the warning to be displayed to > the end user?
Have a look at the entries "warn" and "warning.expression" under ?options In particular: > options()$warn [1] 0 > x <- c(1,2,"C",4,"E",6,"G") > as.numeric(x) [1] 1 2 NA 4 NA 6 NA Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion > old.warn <- options()$warn > options(warn = -1) > as.numeric(x) [1] 1 2 NA 4 NA 6 NA > options(warn = old.warn) > as.numeric(x) [1] 1 2 NA 4 NA 6 NA Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion > Note that options(warn = -1) turns off all warning messages everywhere, so you may want to bracket your calls to as.numeric() in the way shown above, to avoid intefering with other cases where you may want the user to see the warning. Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 31-Jan-07 Time: 19:59:33 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
