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nprcgenekeepr (version 1.0.5)

toCharacter: Force dataframe columns to character

Description

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.

headers

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

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
library(nprcgenekeepr)
pedGood <- nprcgenekeepr::pedGood
names(pedGood) <- c("id", "sire", "dam", "sex", "birth")
class(pedGood[["id"]])
pedGood <- toCharacter(pedGood)
class(pedGood[["id"]])
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }

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