Expanded answer two years later, including the following: What does the manual say? Performance: as.factor > factor when input is a factor Performance: as.factor > factor when …

The levels of a factor are stored as character data type anyway (attributes(f)), so I don't think there is anything wrong with as.numeric(paste(f)). Perhaps it would be better to think why (in …

2015年1月28日 · 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 …

2014年9月30日 · How to count how many values per level in a given factor? Asked 11 years ago Modified 3 years, 7 months ago Viewed 229k times

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 …

2018年2月22日 · 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 …

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? …

2017年7月17日 · A couple comments: reordering a factor is modifying a data column. The dplyr command to modify a data column is mutate. All arrange does is re-order rows, this has no …

2014年12月28日 · 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 …

2013年2月25日 · 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 …