Converts designated columns of a dataframe to character. Defaults to
converting columns id, sire, and dam.
Usage
toCharacter(df, headers = c("id", "sire", "dam"))
Arguments
- df
a dataframe where the first three columns can be coerced to
character.
character vector with the columns to be converted to
character class. Defaults to c("id", "sire", "dam")/
Value
A dataframe with the specified columns converted to class
"character" for display with xtables (in shiny)
Examples
library(nprcgenekeepr)
pedGood <- nprcgenekeepr::pedGood
names(pedGood) <- c("id", "sire", "dam", "sex", "birth")
class(pedGood[["id"]])
#> [1] "factor"
pedGood <- toCharacter(pedGood)
class(pedGood[["id"]])
#> [1] "character"
