Convert dataframe column to 1 or 0 for “true”/“false” values and assign to dataframe

Question

In the R cli I am able to do the following on a character column in a data frame:

> data.frame$column.name [data.frame$column.name == \"true\"] <- 1
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Answer 1

Try this, it will convert True into 1 and False into 0:

data.frame$column.name.num  <- as.numeric(data.frame$column.name)

Then you can convert into factor if you want:

data.frame$column.name.num.factor <- as .factor(data.frame$column.name.num)