Convert Factors in 2 Data Frames of a List into Numeric

Question

I am having trouble converting the columns of 2 data frames in a list to numeric. Right now both data frames have 2 columns consisting of factors. I want to convert them to nu

Answer 1

You need to use lapply. do a str on "b"

str(b)

This will let you know you have a list of 2 of 2 data.frames.

So you need to use lapply along with sapply, to preserve the data structure

lapply(b, function(x) sapply(x, function(x) as.numeric(as.character(x))))

You have D/N in your factor, which will be converted to NAs and also the list entries that are blank/empty