Creates dummy-coded variables.
This function adds dummy-coded variables to a data frame based on a vector of column names.
dummyCode(df, vars)
df |
A data frame. |
vars |
The variables in the data frame for which you want to create new dummy coded variables. |
A a dataframe with new dummy-coded variables added.
# Create an example data frame:
df <- data.frame(
animal = c("dog", "goldfish", "bird", "dog", "goldfish"),
numLegs = c(4, 0, 2, 4, 0),
lifeSpan = c(10, 10, 5, 10, 10))
# Create dummy coded variables for the variables "animal" and "numLegs":
df_dummy <- dummyCode(df, vars = c("animal", "numLegs"))
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