On 06/12/2013 05:47 PM, Gallon Li wrote:
i wish to change a column of factor variable to multiple columns of
zero-ones
for example, my factor could be
ff=c('a','a','b','b','c','c')
then I want to have two columns (for three levels) that are
0 0
0 0
1 0
1 0
0 1
0 1
how can i do this fast?
Hi Gallon,
If you want exactly the output shown above, it is not trivial. You could
convert ff to a factor, then use as.numeric to get:
a = 1
b = 2
c = 3
If you subtract one and display the numbers in two digits of binary:
a = 00
b = 01
c = 10
Then if you apply as.character and strsplit, you can get:
a = "0" "0"
b = "0" "1"
c = "1" "0"
Finally, as.numeric will give you numbers. This does not produce the
numbers above, but it might give you an idea of what to do.
Jim
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