How to coerce a list object to type 'double'
If you want to convert all elements of a
to a single numeric vector and length(a)
is greater than 1 (OK, even if it is of length 1), you could unlist
the object first and then convert.
as.numeric(unlist(a))
# [1] 10 38 66 101 129 185 283 374
Bear in mind that there aren't any quality controls here. Also, X$Days
a mighty odd name.
If your list as multiple elements that need to be converted to numeric, you can achieve this with lapply(a, as.numeric)
.
You can also use list subsetting to select the element you want to convert. It would be useful if your list had more than 1 element.
as.numeric(a[[1]])