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. Columns named in headers are converted to
character.
character vector with the names of the columns to be
converted to character class. Names that are not columns of df are
skipped silently. 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"
