fct_other: Manually replace levels with "other"

In forcats: Tools for Working with Categorical Variables (Factors)

Manually replace levels with "other"

Description

Manually replace levels with "other"

Usage

fct_other(f, keep, drop, other_level = "Other")

Arguments

f	A factor (or character vector).
keep, drop	Pick one of keep and drop: keep will preserve listed levels, replacing all others with other_level. drop will replace listed levels with other_level, keeping all as is.
other_level	Value of level used for "other" values. Always placed at end of levels.

See Also

fct_lump() to automatically convert the rarest (or most common) levels to "other".

Examples

x <- factor(rep(LETTERS[1:9], times = c(40, 10, 5, 27, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)))

fct_other(x, keep = c("A", "B"))
fct_other(x, drop = c("A", "B"))

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