Change the column type of data frame

Question

I have a data frame containing huge amount of values. The data frame is as follows ``` > datedPf date ticker quantity 96828 2013-01-11 ABT 700 96829 2013-01-11 AMD 9600 96830 2013-01-11 AMG 600 96831 2013-01-11 AGCO 800 96832 2013-01-11 A 1300 etc... ``` The type of the "ticker" and "quantity" columns are `factor`. I found this using `class(datedPf$ticker)` and `class(datedPf$quantity)` respectively. But the type of the "date" column is `date`. I want to change that type to `factor`. How can I change this?

Accepted Answer

`datedPf$date = as.factor(datePf$date)` but are you sure that it is what you want to do ?

Change the column type of data frame

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