WGCNA: convertNumericColumnsToNumeric – R documentation

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convertNumericColumnsToNumeric

Convert character columns that represent numbers to numeric

Description

This function converts to numeric those character columns in the input that can be converted to numeric without generating missing values except for the allowed NA representations.

Usage

convertNumericColumnsToNumeric(
   data, 
   naStrings = c("NA", "NULL", "NO DATA"), 
   unFactor = TRUE)

Arguments

`data`	A data frame.
`naStrings`	Character vector of values that are allowd to convert to `NA` (a missing numeric value).
`unFactor`	Logical: should the function first convert all factor columns to character?

Value

A data frame with convertible columns converted to numeric.

Author(s)

Peter Langfelder

WGCNA

Weighted Correlation Network Analysis

v1.70-3

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Peter Langfelder <Peter.Langfelder@gmail.com> and Steve Horvath <SHorvath@mednet.ucla.edu> with contributions by Chaochao Cai, Jun Dong, Jeremy Miller, Lin Song, Andy Yip, and Bin Zhang

Initial release

2021-02-17