‘factor(x, exclude = NULL)’ applied to a factor without ‘NA’s is a no-operation unless there are unused levels: in that case, a factor with the reduced level set is returned. ‘as.factor’ coerces its argument to …

See the Warning section of ?factor: In particular, as.numeric applied to a factor is meaningless, and may happen by implicit coercion. To transform a factor f to approximately its original numeric values, …

You should do the data processing step outside of the model formula/fitting. When creating the factor from b you can specify the ordering of the levels using factor(b, levels = c(3,1,2,4,5)). Do this in a …

Feb 22, 2018 · A load factor=1 hashmap with number of entries=capacity will statistically have significant amount of collisions (=when multiple keys are producing the same hash). When collision occurs the …

Dec 28, 2014 · with dplyr::glimpse(data) I get more values, but no infos about number/values of factor-levels. Is there an automatic way to get all level informations of all factor vars in a data.frame?

Apr 30, 2015 · How do I customize the tab-to-space conversion factor when using Visual Studio Code? For instance, right now in HTML it appears to produce two spaces per press of TAB, but in …

Feb 25, 2013 · Is the general rule to use factor when the variable being used to determine the shape/size/colour is discrete, and not continuous? Or is there another use of factor in this context? It …

Given a (pre-existing) data frame that has columns of various types, what is the simplest way to convert all its character columns to factors, without affecting any columns of other types? Here's an

Feb 26, 2022 · When you have an existing character variable in a dataframe, is there an easy method for converting that variable to a factor using the tidyverse format? For example, the 2nd line of code …

Dec 6, 2018 · The complete conversion of every character variable to factor usually happens when reading in data, e.g., with stringsAsFactors = TRUE, but this is useful when say, you've read data in …