Given a data frame and a grouping column of type factor or character this function generates a new grouping column which groups the groups.
categorize(df, col, categories, cat.col, keep = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)
[data.frame
]
df = data.frame(
group = c("A1", "A1", "A2", "A2", "B1", "B2"),
perf = runif(6),
stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
df2 = categorize(df, col = "group", categories = list(A = c("A1", "A2"), B = c("B1", "B2")), cat.col = "group2")
[data.frame
]
Data frame.
[character(1)
]
Column name of group variable.
[list
]
Named list. Names indicate the name of the category while the values are character vectors
of values within the range of the col
column.
[character(1)
]
Column name for categorization.
[logical(1)
]
Keep the source column col
?
Default is TRUE
.
[logical(1)
]
If TRUE
, cat.col
is set to col
.