Convert All Factor Columns to Character Columns

Description

Sometimes, we forget to use the stringsAsFactors argument when using read.table and related functions. By default, R converts character columns to factors. Instead of re-reading the data, the FacsToChars function will identify which columns are currently factors, and convert them all to characters.

Usage

FacsToChars(mydf)

Arguments

Author(s)

Ananda Mahto

See Also

read.table

Examples

## Some example data
dat <- data.frame(title = c("title1", "title2", "title3"),
         author = c("author1", "author2", "author3"),
         customerID = c(1, 2, 1))

str(dat) # current structure
dat2 <- splitstackshape:::FacsToChars(dat)
str(dat2) # Your new object
str(dat)  # Original object is unaffected