R help - Jan 2009 - Converting Factor to Vector

Hi all,

How can I convert factor like this:
> str(repo)
'data.frame':	1000 obs. of  1 variable:
 $ AAA: Factor w/ 1000 levels "AAT","AAC",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 ...
> print(repo)
AAA
1  AAA
2  AAT
3  AAC
...

into to simple vector
> str(new_repo)
chr [1:100] "AAA" "AAT" "AAC" "AAG"
"ATA" "ATT"...
> print(new_repo)
[1] "AAA" "AAT" "AAC" "AAG"
"ATA" "ATT"...


I tried as.vector(), but it remains the same factor.

- Gundala Viswanath
Jakarta - Indonesia

as.character() 


Bill Venables
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ 


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Subject: [R] Converting Factor to Vector

Hi all,

How can I convert factor like this:
> str(repo)
'data.frame':	1000 obs. of  1 variable:
 $ AAA: Factor w/ 1000 levels "AAT","AAC",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 ...
> print(repo)
AAA
1  AAA
2  AAT
3  AAC
...

into to simple vector
> str(new_repo)
chr [1:100] "AAA" "AAT" "AAC" "AAG"
"ATA" "ATT"...
> print(new_repo)
[1] "AAA" "AAT" "AAC" "AAG"
"ATA" "ATT"...


I tried as.vector(), but it remains the same factor.

- Gundala Viswanath
Jakarta - Indonesia

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