Can you describe a situation where you would need to change the data type of a variable in R?
- When a data is stored in an incorrect format
- When a date is stored as a character
- When a factor is stored as a character
- When a numeric value is stored as a character
Sometimes, data read from text files or over the network may be in character format, but we may need it to be in a numeric format for mathematical operations. In this case, we would need to convert the character data to numeric.
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