[R] convert factor dataframe into numeric matrix

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

look at ?data.matrix().

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sun" <flyhyena at yahoo.com.cn>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:51 PM
Subject: [R] convert factor dataframe into numeric matrix


> Bear me if this is a naive question.
>
> I have a dataframe, all lists inside it are factors. When I use
> as.matrix(df) to convert, I get a character matrix while my 
> intention is to
> get numeric matrix. I can make the convertion  iteratively by each 
> list but
> I do think there is some more elegant way of doing this.
>
> please let me know if I missed somthing there.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sun
>
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