Why use as.factor () instead of just factor () - Stack Overflow
‘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 …
r - How to convert a factor to integer\numeric without loss of ...
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 …
How to force R to use a specified factor level as reference in a ...
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 data processing step outside the lm() call though. My answer below …
r - summarizing counts of a factor with dplyr - Stack Overflow
Sep 12, 2014 · I want to group a data frame by a column (owner) and output a new data frame that has counts of each type of a factor at each observation. The real data frame is fairly large, …
How can I customize the tab-to-space conversion factor in VS Code?
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, …
r - Changing factor levels with dplyr mutate - Stack Overflow
Jan 28, 2015 · From my understanding, the currently accepted answer only changes the order of the factor levels, not the actual labels (i.e., how the levels of the factor are called).
Convert all data frame character columns to factors
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? …
when to use factor () when plotting with ggplot in R?
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 …
factor () command in R is for categorical variables with hierarchy ...
Oct 19, 2012 · I'm quite confused on when to use factor (educ) or factor (agegroup) in R. Is it used for categorical ordered data? or can I just use to it a simple categorical data with no hierarchy? …
r - Convert factor to integer - Stack Overflow
Does anyone know of a way to coerce a factor into an integer? Using as.character() will convert it to the correct character, but then I cannot immediately perform an operation on it, and …