categorical: Create a categorical vector

In edwindj/category: Category extends factors and levels

Description

A categorical vector is an extended factor with extra attributes Creating a categorical vector is almost identical to creating a factor.

Usage

categorical(x = character(), cats, levels, labels = levels, ...)

Arguments

x	vector to be coerced to categorical
cats	optional data.frame with category attributes
levels	optional vector with levels
labels	optional character labels
...	not used

Value

categorical vector

Examples

gendercats <- data.frame( label = c("male", "female")
                        , code = c("M","F")
                        )


gender <- categorical(c("male", "male", "female", "male"), cats=gendercats)

gender
categories(gender)
relabel(gender, "code")

edwindj/category documentation built on May 15, 2019, 11:04 p.m.