Well that?s easy enough - thank you
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 11:50 PM
To: Jeff Reichman <reichmanj at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: r-help mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] Changing selected columns to factor
Hi Jeff,
jrdf<-data.frame(A=rnorm(10),B=rnorm(10),C=rnorm(10),
D=rnorm(10),E=rnorm(10),F=rnorm(10),G=rnorm(10),
H=rnorm(10),I=rnorm(10),J=rnorm(10))
for(i in c(2,7,8,9)) jrdf[,i]<-factor(jrdf[,i])
sapply(jrdf,"class")
Jim
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Jeff Reichman <reichmanj at
sbcglobal.net> wrote:> R-Help Forum
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> If I have a data frame consisting of say ten (10) variables
> (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J) and I want to change Variables 2,7,8,and 9 to
> factors is there a command such that I can do it in one line or do I
> simply have to convert each separately?
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> Jeff
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