Dummify: Generate Dummy Variables in a Data Frame

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) Examples

Description

Quickly create dummies in a data frame.

Usage

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Dummify(x, .data = NULL, drop = TRUE)

Arguments

x

the column position to generate dummies

.data

the a data.frame.

drop

A logical value. If TRUE, unused levels will be omitted.

Details

A matrix object

Author(s)

Daniel Marcelino, dmarcelino@live.com

Examples

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df <- data.frame(y = rnorm(10), x = runif(10,0,1), sex = sample(1:2, 10, rep=TRUE))

Dummify(df$sex) ;

cbind(df, Dummify(df$sex));

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