Package: base

Function: as.character()

1. Convert a factor (Var1) to a character variable

Review the data (d1)

# A tibble: 3 x 5
  Var1   Var2  Var3 Var4       Var5 
  <fct> <int> <dbl> <date>     <lgl>
1 a         2   3.6 2004-10-10 TRUE 
2 b        NA   8.5 2007-12-14 FALSE
3 c         3  NA   2020-08-09 TRUE

View the class for Var1

class(d1$Var1)
[1] "factor"

Convert Var1 to a character.

  • Note: We are recoding into a new variable using dplyr::mutate() and saving over the original variable by naming the new variable the same name as the original.
d1 <- d1 %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(Var1 = as.character(Var1))

class(d1$Var1)
[1] "character"

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