Transform: Functions for transformation of variables.

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Description

Functions for transformation of variables.

By default, R converts character columns to factors. Instead of re-reading the data using stringsAsFactors, the Safechars function will identify which columns are currently factors, and convert them all to characters.

Usage

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Factorize(.data, vars)

Destring(.data, vars)

Safechars(.data)

Arguments

.data

data.table or data.frame object.

vars

Character or vector of characters with variables names to transform.

.data

a data.frame.

Value

Data.table object with transformed variables.

Author(s)

Daniel Marcelino, dmarcelino@live.com.

See Also

read.table, Destring.

Examples

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Factorize(mtcars, c("cyl", "mpg"))
 str(iris)
iris_2 = Safechars(iris)
str(iris_2)

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