Convert data.frame columns from factors to characters

Question

I have a data frame. Let\'s call him bob:

> head(bob)
                 phenotype                         exclusion
GSM399350 3- 4- 8- 25- 44+         


        

Answer 1

You should use convert in hablar which gives readable syntax compatible with tidyverse pipes:

library(dplyr)
library(hablar)

df <- tibble(a = factor(c(1, 2, 3, 4)),
             b = factor(c(5, 6, 7, 8)))

df %>% convert(chr(a:b))

which gives you:

  a     b    
   
1 1     5    
2 2     6    
3 3     7    
4 4     8