Helper functions for R

Access a table column by its name

Suppose there is a Table stored in the variable myTable and the user wants to access the column named Data:

myTable$Data

Discover the type of a variable

typeof( variableName )

Convert a variable to Character

Suppose there is a Table stored in the variable myTable and the column Names refer to a column of Factors

myTable$Names <- as.character( myTable$Names )

Read a .CSV file to Table

Suppose the file to be read is located at C:/Users/Default/Documents/information.csv

newTable <- read.csv( "C:/Users/Default/Documents/information.csv", stringsAsFactors = FALSE )