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Update 03-basics-factors-dataframes.Rmd #234

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Trouble can really start when we try to coerce a factor. For example, when we
try to coerce the `sample_id` column in our data frame into a numeric mode
try to coerce the `factor_snps` vector into a numeric mode
look at the result:

```{r, purl=FALSE}
as.numeric(variants$sample_id)
as.numeric(factor_snps)
```

Strangely, it works! Almost. Instead of giving an error message, R returns
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