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, …
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 - How to convert integer to factor? - Stack Overflow
Thanks, erasmortg. When I check with class it shows 'factor'. I hope it is indeed a factor then. Do not understand why typeof shows integer. I also just tried str (df) and it shows that x is a factor.
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 as.integer() or …
colors - Colouring plot by factor in R - Stack Overflow
May 26, 2016 · Using R's built in plot functionality Using R's built in plot functionality to get a plot colored by a factor and an associated legend is a 4-step process, and it's a little more technical than using …
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 …
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 …
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 256k times