SciencesPo (version 1.3.8)

dummy: Generate dummy variables

Description

Provides an alternative to generate dummy variables

Usage

dummy(x, data = NULL, drop = TRUE)

Arguments

x

a column position to generate dummies

data

the data object as a data.frame

drop

A logical value. If TRUE, unused levels will be omitted

encoding

UTF-8

Details

A matrix object

Examples

df <- data.frame(y = rnorm(25), x = runif(25,0,1), sex = sample(1:2, 25, rep=TRUE))

dummy(df$sex)