Dummify: Generate Dummy Variables in a Data Frame

In SciencesPo: A Tool Set for Analyzing Political Behavior Data

Description

Quickly create dummies in a data frame.

Usage

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, [e-mail]

Examples

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));

SciencesPo documentation built on May 29, 2017, 9:28 p.m.