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factorizeNonNumericColumns: Turn non-numeric columns into factors

Description

Given a data frame, this function turns non-numeric columns into factors.

Usage

factorizeNonNumericColumns(data)

Value

The input data frame with non-numeric columns turned into factors.

Arguments

data

A data frame. Non-data frame inputs (e.g., a matrix) are coerced to a data frame.

Author

Peter Langfelder

Details

A column is considered numeric if its storage mode is numeric or if it is a character vector, it only contains character representations of numbers and possibly missing values encoded as "NA", "NULL", "NO DATA".