In toddellis/foofactors: Make Factors Less Aggravating

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foofactors

The goal of foofactors is to make factors less aggravating (& learn about package development).

Installation

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("toddellis/foofactors")

Quick demo

Binding two factors via fbind():

library(foofactors)
a <- factor(c("character", "hits", "your", "eyeballs"))
b <- factor(c("but", "integer", "where it", "counts"))

Simply catenating two factors leads to a result that most don't expect.

c(a, b)

The fbind() function glues two factors together and returns factor.

fbind(a, b)

Often we want a table of frequencies for the levels of a factor. The base table() function returns an object of class table, which can be inconvenient for downstream work.

set.seed(1234)
x <- factor(sample(letters[1:5], size = 100, replace = TRUE))
table(x)

The fcount() function returns a frequency table as a tibble with a column of factor levels and another of frequencies:

fcount(x)

toddellis/foofactors documentation built on March 2, 2020, 12:20 a.m.