frequency_encoder: frequency_encoder

In UBC-MDS/encodeR: A collection of categorical encoders in R

Description

This function encodes categorical variables using the frequencies of each category.

Usage

frequency_encoder(X_train, X_test = NULL, cat_columns)

Arguments

X_train	A 'tibble' or 'data.frame' representing the training data set containing some categorical features/columns.
X_test	A 'tibble' or 'data.frame' representing the test set, containing some set of categorical features/columns.
cat_columns	A character vector containing the names of the categorical columns in the tibble that should be encoded.

Value

A 'list' with processed training and test sets (if provided), in which the named categorical columns are replaced with their encodings.

Examples

frequency_encoder(
X_train = mtcars,
cat_columns = c("gear", "carb"))

UBC-MDS/encodeR documentation built on March 31, 2020, 12:53 a.m.