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Remove all quotation marks from data frame

I have a data frame repthat looks like this:

> head(rep)
     position chrom  value label  
[1,] "17408"  "chr1" "0"   "miRNA"
[2,] "17409"  "chr1" "0"   "miRNA"
[3,] "17410"  "chr1" "0"   "miRNA"
[4,] "17411"  "chr1" "0"   "miRNA"
[5,] "17412"  "chr1" "0"   "miRNA"
[6,] "17413"  "chr1" "0"   "miRNA"

How to remove quotes from all elements?

Note: rep$positionand rep$valuemust be of type numeric, rep$chromand rep$labelmust be character.

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As @Roland pointed out, you have matrix, not data.frame, and they have different default methods print. When using, matrixyou can set quote = FALSEexplicitly to printor use noquote.

Here is an example:

## Sample data
x <- matrix(c(17, "chr1", 0, "miRNA", 18, "chr1", 0, "miRNA"), nrow = 2, 
            byrow = TRUE, dimnames = list(
              NULL, c("position", "chrom", "value", "label")))

## Default printing
x
#      position chrom  value label  
# [1,] "17"     "chr1" "0"   "miRNA"
# [2,] "18"     "chr1" "0"   "miRNA"

## Two options to make the quotes disappear
print(x, quote = FALSE)
#      position chrom value label
# [1,] 17       chr1  0     miRNA
# [2,] 18       chr1  0     miRNA
noquote(x)
#      position chrom value label
# [1,] 17       chr1  0     miRNA
# [2,] 18       chr1  0     miRNA

, , matrix data.frame . A data.frame , (, , ..). a matrix data.frame . type.convert ( data.frame read.table ):

y <- data.frame(x, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
str(y)
# 'data.frame':  2 obs. of  4 variables:
#  $ position: chr  "17" "18"
#  $ chrom   : chr  "chr1" "chr1"
#  $ value   : chr  "0" "0"
#  $ label   : chr  "miRNA" "miRNA"
y[] <- lapply(y, type.convert)
str(y)
# 'data.frame':  2 obs. of  4 variables:
#  $ position: int  17 18
#  $ chrom   : Factor w/ 1 level "chr1": 1 1
#  $ value   : int  0 0
#  $ label   : Factor w/ 1 level "miRNA": 1 1
y
#   position chrom value label
# 1       17  chr1     0 miRNA
# 2       18  chr1     0 miRNA
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: 1) , 2) :

x <- read.table(text='
position chrom  value label  
"\\"17408\\""  "\\"chr1\\"" "\\"0\\""   "\\"miRNA\\""
"\\"17409\\""  "\\"chr1\\"" "\\"0\\""   "\\"miRNA\\""'
, header=T)

1)

library(stringr)
library(plyr)

del <- colwise(function(x) str_replace_all(x, '\"', ""))
x <- del(x)

2)

num <- colwise(as.numeric)    
x[c(1,3)] <- num(x[c(1,3)])
x

  position chrom value label
1    17408  chr1     0 miRNA
2    17409  chr1     0 miRNA
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, . data.frame, . data.frame . , , ....

rep <- data.frame(rep)
> head(rep)
  position chrom value label
1    17408  chr1     0 miRNA
2    17409  chr1     0 miRNA
3    17410  chr1     0 miRNA
4    17411  chr1     0 miRNA
5    17412  chr1     0 miRNA
6    17413  chr1     0 miRNA
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