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 its argument to …
r - list all factor levels of a data.frame - Stack Overflow
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?
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 numeric values, …
r - Changing factor levels with dplyr mutate - Stack Overflow
Jan 28, 2015 · 19 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). To illustrate the …
Convert existing dataframe variable to factor in Tidyverse
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 …
How to force R to use a specified factor level as reference in a ...
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 …
r - Re-ordering factor levels in data frame - Stack Overflow
Aug 24, 2013 · Re-ordering factor levels in data frame [duplicate] Asked 12 years, 3 months ago Modified 4 years, 3 months ago Viewed 255k times
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 context? It …
How to convert data.frame column from Factor to numeric
Dec 17, 2014 · Closed 10 years ago. I have a data.frame whose class column is Factor. I'd like to convert it to numeric so that I can use correlation matrix.
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, and there are …