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bin.var

Bin a Numeric Varisible

Description

Create a factor dissecting the range of a numeric variable into bins of equal width, (roughly) equal frequency, or at "natural" cut points. The cut function is used to create the factor. bin.var is a synomym for binVariable, retained for backwards compatibility.

Usage

binVariable(x, bins = 4, method = c("intervals", "proportions", "natural"),
    labels = FALSE)
    
bin.var(...)

Arguments

`x`	numeric variable to be binned.
`bins`	number of bins.
`method`	one of `"intervals"` for equal-width bins; `"proportions"` for equal-count bins; `"natural"` for cut points between bins to be determined by a k-means clustering.
`labels`	if `FALSE`, numeric labels will be used for the factor levels; if `NULL`, the cut points are used to define labels; otherwise a character vector of level names.
`...`	arguments to be passed to `binVariable`.

Value

A factor.

Author(s)

Dan Putler, slightly modified by John Fox jfox@mcmaster.ca with the original author's permission.

Examples

summary(binVariable(rnorm(100), method="prop", labels=letters[1:4]))

RcmdrMisc

R Commander Miscellaneous Functions

v2.7-1

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

John Fox [aut, cre], Robert Muenchen [ctb], Dan Putler [ctb]

Initial release

2020-08-12