mx_dummies: Dummy Code Factor Variables

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Dummy Code Factor Variables

Description

For each variable v that inherits factor, create a number of new variables equal to levels(v) to indicate group membership (1) or non-membership (0) of that level. The resulting dummies have class mxFactor.

Usage

mx_dummies(x, classes = c("factor", "character"), ...)

Arguments

x	An object for which a method exists.
classes	Character vector, indicating which classes to dummy code. Defaults to c("factor", "character").
...	Arguments

Value

A data.frame.

Examples

if(requireNamespace("OpenMx", quietly = TRUE)){
mx_dummies(iris[1:5,])
}

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