I'm trying to figure out why when I use as.character() on one row of a
data.frame, I get factor numbers instead of a character vector. Any
suggestions?
See the following code:
a<-c("Abraham","Jonah","Moses")
b<-c("Sarah","Hannah","Mary")
c<-c("Billy","Joe","Bob")
df<-data.frame(a=a,b=b,c=c)
#Suppose I'm interested in one line of this data frame but as a vector
one.line <- df[df$a=="Abraham",]
#However the following illustrates the problem I'm having
one.line <- as.vector(df[df$a=="Abraham",]) #Creates a one row
data.frame instead of a vector!
#compare above to
one.line <- as.character(df[df$a=="Abraham",]) #Creates a vector of 1, 3, 1!
#In the end, this creates the output that I'd like:
one.line <-as.vector(t(df[df$a=="Abraham",])) #but it seems like a lot of work!
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