#' Encode a given factor variable using median encoding
#'
#' @description Transforms the original design matrix using a median encoding.
#'
#' @param X The data.frame/data.table to transform.
#' @param fact The factor variable to encode by - either a positive integer specifying the
#' column number, or the name of the column.
#' @param keep_factor Whether to keep the original factor column(defaults to **FALSE**).
#' @param encoding_only Whether to return the full transformed dataset or only the new
#' columns. Defaults to FALSE and returns the full dataset.
#'
#' @return A new data.table X which contains the new columns and optionally the old factor.
#' @details This might be somewhat lacking in theory (to the author's best knowledge), but
#' feel free to try it and publish the results if they turn out interesting on some
#' particular problem.
#' @importFrom data.table data.table
#' @importFrom data.table setkeyv
#' @importFrom data.table .SD
#' @importFrom data.table ':='
#' @importFrom stats median
#' @export
#'
#' @examples
#'
#' design_mat <- cbind( data.frame( matrix(rnorm(5*100),ncol = 5) ),
#' sample( sample(letters, 10), 100, replace = TRUE)
#' )
#' colnames(design_mat)[6] <- "factor_var"
#'
#' encode_median(X = design_mat, fact = "factor_var", keep_factor = FALSE)
#'
encode_median <- function(X, fact, keep_factor = FALSE, encoding_only = FALSE){
if(is.numeric(fact)){
fact <- colnames(X)[fact]
}
X <- data.table::data.table(X)
data.table::setkeyv(X, fact)
medians <- X[, lapply(.SD, median, na.rm = TRUE), by = fact ]
colnames(medians) <- c( fact,
paste( fact,"_",
colnames(X)[which(colnames(X) != fact)],
"_median", sep = ""))
if(encoding_only == TRUE){
if(keep_factor == FALSE){
return(medians[,-1])
}
else{
return(medians)
}
}
X <- X[medians, on = fact]
if(keep_factor == FALSE){
X[,(fact) := NULL]
}
return(X)
}
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