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2006 May 11
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cannot turn some columns in a data frame into factors
Hi, I have a data frame df and a list of names of columns that I want to turn into factors: df.names <- attr(df,"names") sapply(factors, function (name) { pos <- match(name,df.names) if (is.na(pos)) stop(paste(name,": no such column\n")) df[[pos]] <- factor(df[[pos]]) cat(name,"(",pos,"):",is.factor(df[[pos]]),"\n")