Function to expand factor variables in dummy variables in a data.frame. See details.
var.dummy(data)A data.frame.
The data with all variables of class factor expanded.
A list with sugestion to group of traits that are analysed together.
Variables in the data.frame of class factor is expanded in dummy variables. Each level of factor produce a new column in the dataframe, with presence (1) or absense (0) of level. The name of columns is a combination of orginal variable name plus the level separate by underscore ( _ ). Ordered factor and character class are not expanded.