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Factors (with as.factor) are variables that have discrete values, which may or may not be ordered. In other areas of science outside R they're often called categorical values. For example North South East and West could be factors. Numerics (with as.numeric) are numbers, with infinite other numbers between them. So for example 5 is a number, as is 6, but so are 5.01, 5.001, 5.0001 etc. To. The complete conversion of every character variable to factor usually happens when reading in data, e.g., with stringsAsFactors = TRUE, but this is useful when say, you've read data in with read_excel() from the readxl package and want to train a random forest model that doesn't accept character variables. I'm currently looking into how we should remove expired certificates from Azure Multi-Factor Auth Client, and properly cleanup the old certificates with Microsoft Graph PowerShell cmdlets. Performance: as.factor factor when input is integer A factor variable is the next of kin of an integer variable. This means that converting an integer to a factor is easier than converting a numeric / character to a factor. as.factor just takes care of this. I believe replication_factor determines how many replicas to have amongst nodes in the cluster, and refFactor determines whether or not to replicate a particular index. For repFactor, which is an index specific setting The indexes.conf repFactor attribute When you add a new index stanza, you must set the repFactor attribute to auto. This causes the index's data to be replicated to other. The levels of a factor are stored as character data type anyway (attributes(f)), so I don't think there is anything wrong with as.numeric(paste(f)). Perhaps it would be better to think why (in the specific context) you are getting a factor in the first place, and try to stop that. E.g., is the dec argument in read.table set correctly? azure-active-directory multi-factor-authentication azure-ad-b2b authenticator asked Jul 24, 2020 at 18:04 successhawk 3,419 5 37 53 Synology NAS: Trying to login after 2-factor authentication results in wrong verification code. please try again Asked 4 years, 6 months ago Modified 3 months ago Viewed 21k times Re-ordering factor levels in data frame [duplicate] Asked 12 years, 8 months ago Modified 4 years, 8 months ago Viewed 261k times The replication factor of 3 includes the leader itself and 2 followers. Think of that factor in a more mathematical way: 1 times 3 still results in 3. Let me give an example. A topic created with 3 partitions, replication factor of 3 results in 9 replicas. Three of those nine are leaders, the other six will be followers. Unfortunately I didn't find something about that in the official.

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