Change data type of one column in R

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I have a data frame of two columns, one with data type character and the other with numeric. Now I want to change the data type of one column from numeric to factorial. Is that possible?
Dec 11, 2018 in Data Analytics by Ali
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Try this:

dataframeName$colName <- as.factor(datataframeName$colName)

answered Dec 11, 2018 by Maverick
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