Data Type Conversion in R (2 Examples) | Convert Character & Factor to Numeric Class

How to convert characters and factors to numeric in R. More details in these tutorials: https://statisticsglobe.com/convert-c...
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R syntax of this video:

Example 1 - Character to Numeric

x_char ＜- as.character(c(8, 4, 6, 4, 6, 5)) # Example data

x_char_to_num ＜- as.numeric(x_char) # Convert to numeric


Example 2 - Factor to Numeric

x_fac ＜- as.factor(c(8, 4, 6, 4, 6, 5)) # Example data

x_fac_to_num ＜- as.numeric(x_fac) # Wrong!! Be careful!
x_fac_to_num ＜- as.numeric(as.character(x_fac)) # Correct