R: Convert a dataframe to matrix

Convert a dataframe to matrix {Rfast} | R Documentation

## Convert a dataframe to matrix

### Description

Convert a dataframe to matrix.

### Usage

    data.frame.to_matrix(x,col.names = NULL,row.names = NULL)

### Arguments

`x` | A Numeric matrix with data and NAs.
`col.names` | A boolean value for keeping the colnames for argument x or a character vector for the new colnames.
`row.names` | A boolean value for keeping the rownames for argument x or a character vector for the new rownames.

### Details

This functions converts a dataframe to matrix. Even if there are factors, the function converts them into numerical values. Attributes are not allowed for now.

### Value

A matrix wich has the numrical values from the dataframe.

### Author(s)

Manos Papadakis

R implementation and documentation: Manos Papadakis <papadakm95@gmail.com>

### See Also

`Match, is.symmetric, permutation`

### Examples

    res<-data.frame.to_matrix(iris)

[Package Rfast version 2.0.4 Index]