Changing a character into a number

[EmiliaSicari]

Rafael and I were wondering if there's a way to convert a character into a number on Rstudio. For example check the data set of "women" included in R: the variables "height" and "weight" are considered characters even though they are numbers; therefore, it's not possible to calculate some statistics!!

Thanks a lot! :)

[christophergandrud]

If you have a data frame called data and a variable called height then use as.numeric like this:

data$height <- as.numeric(data$height)