How to Convert Factor to Numeric in R (With Examples)

#define factor vector
factor_vector <- factor(c(1, 5, 7, 8))

#convert factor vector to numeric vector
numeric_vector <- as.numeric(as.character(factor_vector))

#view class
class(numeric_vector)

[1] "numeric"

#create data frame
df <- data.frame(a = factor(c(1, 5, 7, 8)),
                 b = c(28, 34, 35, 36))

#convert column 'a' from factor to numeric
df$a <- as.numeric(as.character(df$a))

#view new data frame
df

  a  b
1 1 28
2 5 34
3 7 35
4 8 36

#confirm class of numeric vector
class(df$a)

[1] "numeric"

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