Convert factor to numeric without losing information on the label

Convert factor to numeric without losing information on the label

Usage

unfactor(f)

Arguments

f

A factor

Value

A numeric vector

Examples

unfactor(factor(c("1","3","3"),levels=c("1","3")))
#> [1] 1 3 3
# contrast this to:
as.numeric(factor(c("1","3","3"),levels=c("1","3"))) 
#> [1] 1 2 2