Converting simple column of decimal numbers into numeric values?

Asked Jun 17 '20 at 02:54

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I've merged two datasets in R of both numeric and categorical variables. A column of data, constant GDP is represented as numbers (ex: 478.3044, 568.1392). However, R interprets this column as a factor:

is.numeric(data$GDP)
#[1] FALSE

I have attempted to convert to numerical values with as.numeric(data$GDP) but R still determines the column to be categorical.

Is there any way to convert this data within the data frame?

edited Jun 17 '20 at 03:36

Ronak Shah

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asked Jun 17 '20 at 02:54

BeginneR

`data$GDP <- as.numeric(as.character(data$GDP))` – Ronak Shah Jun 17 '20 at 02:57
How did you merge the two datasets together? You may be able to explicitly state not to treat numerics as factors there. – setty Jun 17 '20 at 02:58
@setty, I merged with: total <- merge(Dataset1, Dataset2, by=c("variable1","variable2")) – BeginneR Jun 17 '20 at 03:31
@RonakShah, the code worked! Thank you very much. – BeginneR Jun 17 '20 at 03:33

Converting simple column of decimal numbers into numeric values?

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