title: Converting numeric type vector into a vector of strings
body: <p>I'm trying to convert this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; j[1:5] 
  NA06985 NA06991 NA06993 NA06994 NA07000
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Into this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>c("NA06985","NA06991","NA06993", "NA06994", "NA07000")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried using as.character but it gives me:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; as.character(j[1:5])
  [1] "10" "10" "10" "10" "10"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Help please!
  -Josh</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  Okay so I think I figured it out. After doing class(j) I found that it was of type data.frame. So I converted to as.matrix and it worked..hooray!</p>