如何将数据帧列转换为数字类型?


当前回答

如果x是dataframe dat的列名,x的类型是factor,使用:

as.numeric(as.character(dat$x))

其他回答

虽然你的问题严格是关于数字的,但在开始r时,有许多转换是难以理解的。我将致力于解决帮助的方法。这个问题和这个问题类似。

在R中,类型转换可能是一种痛苦,因为(1)因子不能直接转换为数字,它们需要首先转换为字符类,(2)日期是一种特殊情况,通常需要单独处理,(3)跨数据帧列的循环可能很棘手。幸运的是,“潮流宇宙”已经解决了大部分问题。

This solution uses mutate_each() to apply a function to all columns in a data frame. In this case, we want to apply the type.convert() function, which converts strings to numeric where it can. Because R loves factors (not sure why) character columns that should stay character get changed to factor. To fix this, the mutate_if() function is used to detect columns that are factors and change to character. Last, I wanted to show how lubridate can be used to change a timestamp in character class to date-time because this is also often a sticking block for beginners.


library(tidyverse) 
library(lubridate)

# Recreate data that needs converted to numeric, date-time, etc
data_df
#> # A tibble: 5 × 9
#>             TIMESTAMP SYMBOL    EX  PRICE  SIZE  COND   BID BIDSIZ   OFR
#>                 <chr>  <chr> <chr>  <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>  <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2012-05-04 09:30:00    BAC     T 7.8900 38538     F  7.89    523  7.90
#> 2 2012-05-04 09:30:01    BAC     Z 7.8850   288     @  7.88  61033  7.90
#> 3 2012-05-04 09:30:03    BAC     X 7.8900  1000     @  7.88   1974  7.89
#> 4 2012-05-04 09:30:07    BAC     T 7.8900 19052     F  7.88   1058  7.89
#> 5 2012-05-04 09:30:08    BAC     Y 7.8900 85053     F  7.88 108101  7.90

# Converting columns to numeric using "tidyverse"
data_df %>%
    mutate_all(type.convert) %>%
    mutate_if(is.factor, as.character) %>%
    mutate(TIMESTAMP = as_datetime(TIMESTAMP, tz = Sys.timezone()))
#> # A tibble: 5 × 9
#>             TIMESTAMP SYMBOL    EX PRICE  SIZE  COND   BID BIDSIZ   OFR
#>                <dttm>  <chr> <chr> <dbl> <int> <chr> <dbl>  <int> <dbl>
#> 1 2012-05-04 09:30:00    BAC     T 7.890 38538     F  7.89    523  7.90
#> 2 2012-05-04 09:30:01    BAC     Z 7.885   288     @  7.88  61033  7.90
#> 3 2012-05-04 09:30:03    BAC     X 7.890  1000     @  7.88   1974  7.89
#> 4 2012-05-04 09:30:07    BAC     T 7.890 19052     F  7.88   1058  7.89
#> 5 2012-05-04 09:30:08    BAC     Y 7.890 85053     F  7.88 108101  7.90

要将数据帧列转换为数字,你只需要做:-

因数转换为数字:-

data_frame$column <- as.numeric(as.character(data_frame$column))

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dat$x = as.numeric(as.character(dat$x))

这将覆盖现有列x的值

有一点对我很有帮助:如果要转换的变量范围(或者不止一个),可以使用sapply。

有点荒谬,举个例子:

data(cars)
cars[, 1:2] <- sapply(cars[, 1:2], as.factor)

假设第3列、第6-15列和第37列的数据帧需要转换为数字:

dat[, c(3,6:15,37)] <- sapply(dat[, c(3,6:15,37)], as.numeric)

如果数据帧有多种类型的列,一些字符,一些数字尝试以下转换列包含数值为数值:

for (i in 1:length(data[1,])){
  if(length(as.numeric(data[,i][!is.na(data[,i])])[!is.na(as.numeric(data[,i][!is.na(data[,i])]))])==0){}
  else {
    data[,i]<-as.numeric(data[,i])
  }
}