colToDummies: Changes a column containing multiple values to a matrix of...

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Changes a column containing multiple values to a matrix of columns containing the dummies corresponding to each value.

Description

Changes a column containing multiple values to a matrix of columns containing the dummies corresponding to each value.

Usage

colToDummies(col, nameCol, modalities = NULL, keepValue = FALSE)

Arguments

col	input column
nameCol	name that will be used as a prefix for dummies column name in the output matrix
modalities	if a vector is entered, dummies produced will only be the ones corresponding to the values in the "modalities" input column + another one containing all the other modalities.
keepValue	Logical. If TRUE, puts not "1"s in the dummies output columns but the real values in the "col" column (except if values are non-numeric)

Value

Matrix containing the dummy columns

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