[R] convert Factor as numeric

[Ben Bolker]

arnaud Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Dear group,
> 
> I know this issue has been already covered, and before you reply I must say
> I have read the R-FAQ and search the mailing list archive.
> I still can't manage to change my factor to numeric as I couldn't find any
> clear answer.

(Posting via Gmane, so there will probably be four other
solutions by the time this shows up.)

  Your problem is that R does not recognize the comma
separators in your numeric format.  Thanks for posting
reproducible code!

as.numeric(gsub(",","",as.character(Pose1$SETTLEMENT)))