dot-FactorColumns: Convert character columns to factors

In irwinsnet/FIRST_api_R: Tools to Download and Convert FIRST API Data to R Data Frames

Description

.FactorColumns is an internal function that is not intended to be called by the user. It is called by other FIRST API methods.

Usage

.FactorColumns(df, cols)

Arguments

df	The data.frame that will have it's columns converted to factors.
cols	A character vector of column names that identifies the columns that will be converted to factors.

Details

There are benefits to converting data frame columns with a limited number of unique character values to factors. For example, the R barplot function will automatically group values by factors, which could be a team, district, etc. Factors are conceptually similar to enumerations in other programming languages.

Value

Data.frame

Examples

teams <- .FactorColumns(teams, c("districtCode", "stateProv", "country"))

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