
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 …
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 …
Convert all data frame character columns to factors
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? …
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 …
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 …
r - Re-ordering factor levels in data frame - Stack Overflow
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What is the significance of load factor in HashMap?
Feb 22, 2018 · 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 …
r - labelling of ordered factor variable - Stack Overflow
Specifying that a factor is of type ordered has two major effects: it allows you to evaluate inequalities on the levels of the factor (e.g. you can filter(age > "b"))
When to use as.numeric and as.factor in R - Stack Overflow
Feb 17, 2020 · Factors (with as.factor) are variables that have discrete values, which may or may not be ordered. In other areas of science outside R they're often called categorical values. For …
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 …