encode.character: Encode character vector with numeric values

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Description

encode.character takes a character column of a dataframe and returns it converted with numeric values. It is also possible to return the correspondance between the numeric values and the initial characters

Usage

encode.character(df, char.var = "Country_Transco", codelist = T)

Arguments

df	Dataframe
char.var	Character variable name that should be converted
codelist	If FALSE, a numeric vector is returned with numeric codes. If TRUE, a dataframe is returned indicating the correspondance between the numeric values and the initial character vector

Value

A dataframe of two columns or a numeric vector

linogaliana/OpenCancer documentation built on May 30, 2019, 3:43 p.m.