Transform columns in a data frame

Function transforms all data frame columns of a specific class into another class.

Usage

facToChar ( dataFrame, from = "factor", to = "character")

Arguments

dataFrame

a data frame

from

which column class should be transformed?

to

target column class

Value

a data frame

Author

Sebastian Weirich

Examples

data(mtcars)
### original classes
sapply(mtcars, class)
#>       mpg       cyl      disp        hp      drat        wt      qsec        vs 
#> "numeric" "numeric" "numeric" "numeric" "numeric" "numeric" "numeric" "numeric" 
#>        am      gear      carb 
#> "numeric" "numeric" "numeric" 
mtcars1 <- facToChar(mtcars, from = "numeric", to = "character")
sapply(mtcars1, class)
#>         mpg         cyl        disp          hp        drat          wt 
#> "character" "character" "character" "character" "character" "character" 
#>        qsec          vs          am        gear        carb 
#> "character" "character" "character" "character" "character"