[R] From NUM to INT

[jim holtman]

Can you explain why you need them as 'integer',  A floating point
representation can hold a value upto ~4.5e15 as an "integer" keeping the
precision that you might need.


Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:11 PM, André Luis Neves <andrluis at ualberta.ca>
wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> I converted the columns (Baci, Meti, Fungii, Protozoai) into integers
> (using excel) and then imported the data (.txt) into R. Interestingly, the
> other three variables were loaded as INT, but the 'Baci' one continued as
> Num.
>
> I imported the data using the following command line:
>
> X <- read.delim(file.choose(),
>                  header = TRUE,
>                  dec = ".")
>
> Here is the structure of X:
>
> > str(X)
> 'data.frame': 115 obs. of  5 variables:
>  $ ID       : Factor w/ 61 levels "107ZRED","112BLKW",..: 8 12 15 18 26 27
> 29 31 32 36 ...
>  $ Baci     : num  2.90e+12 5.55e+11 9.46e+11 8.13e+11 4.06e+11 ...
>  $ Meti     : int  352645997 334146268 767208656 171567266 462747405
> 414905627 237010514 387480048 214671355 328813226 ...
>  $ Fungii   : int  43645 19009 15998 2189 8972 8240 3133 17922 6156 13746
> ...
>  $ Protozoai: int  3220523 1851891 3252462 1665675 34123768 23175015 203685
> 4261780 43110492 69802572 ...
>
>
> I need Baci as an integer, and tried to convert it using as.integer
> function, but was not successful.
>
>
> Could anyone please help me to solve this problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> ​
> --
> Andre
>
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