ufs (version 0.1.0)

massConvertToNumeric: Converting many dataframe columns to numeric

Description

This function makes it easy to convert many dataframe columns to numeric.

Usage

massConvertToNumeric(dat, byFactorLabel = FALSE,
  ignoreCharacter = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

Arguments

dat

The dataframe with the columns.

byFactorLabel

When converting factors, whether to do this by their label value (`TRUE`) or their level value (`FALSE`).

ignoreCharacter

Whether to convert (`FALSE`) or ignore (`TRUE`) character vectors.

stringsAsFactors

In the returned dataframe, whether to return string (character) vectors as factors or not.

Value

A data.frame.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
### Create a dataset
a <- data.frame(var1 = factor(1:4),
                var2 = as.character(5:6),
                stringsAsFactors=FALSE);

### Ignores var2
b <- ufs::massConvertToNumeric(a);

### Converts var2
c <- ufs::massConvertToNumeric(a,
                               ignoreCharacter = FALSE);
# }