Transform: Functions for transformation of variables.

In SciencesPo: A Tool Set for Analyzing Political Behavior Data

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

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, [e-mail].

See Also

read.table, Destring.

Examples

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

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