as_dummy: Convert Factor Variables to Dummies

In jackobailey/jbmisc: Jack Bailey's R functions and templates

Description

This function takes away the need to rely on ifelse() to create dummy variables.

Usage

as_dummy(x, ..., factor = T, labels = c("Off", "On"))

Arguments

x	A vector of factor data to convert to a dummy.
...	Terms to recode as 1.
factor	Convert the dummy to a factor variable? Defaults to FALSE.
labels	If factor = T, a character vector to specify the names of the resulting levels (e.g. c("Tails", "Heads")). Defaults to c("Off", "On").

Value

A vector of dummy data.

Examples

x <- sample(c("Coffee", "Tea", "Hot Chocolate"), replace = TRUE, size = 100)
as_dummy(x, Coffee)

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