R help - Nov 2014 - factor levels > numeric values

Hi everybody,

I have another question (to which I could not find an answer in my r-books.
I am sure, it's not a great issue, but I simply lack of a good idea how to
solve this:

One of my variables gets imported as a factor instead of a numeric variable.
Now I have a...
 Factor w/ 63 levels "0","0.02","0.03",..: 1 NA NA
1 NA NA 1 1 53 10 ...

How can I transform these factor levels into actual values?

Thank you very much for any help!
David

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Hello, David,

take a look at the beginning of the "Warning" section of ?factor.

  Hth  --  Gerrit
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have another question (to which I could not find an answer in my r-books.
> I am sure, it's not a great issue, but I simply lack of a good idea how
to
> solve this:
>
> One of my variables gets imported as a factor instead of a numeric
variable.
> Now I have a...
> Factor w/ 63 levels "0","0.02","0.03",..: 1
NA NA 1 NA NA 1 1 53 10 ...
>
> How can I transform these factor levels into actual values?
>
> Thank you very much for any help!
> David
>
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>
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Hi,

  Suppose your data frame is called data and the name of the factor column
is named tobeConverted.  I have tried this and it worked.  Hope this helps.
> as.numeric(as.character(data$tobeConverted))


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