R: Encode character variables into numeric

Question

In R code I have a character variable var that has values \"AA\", \"AB\", \"AC\", etc.

str(var)
chr [1:17003] \"AA\" \"AA\" \"AA\" \"AA\" \"AB\"         


        

Answer 1

you can use them by directly converting them into factors with labeling.

x$Country = factor(x$Country,
               levels = c('AA', 'AB', 'AC'),
               labels = c(1, 2, 3))