factorize {Colossus}

Splits a parameter into factors

Description

factorize uses user provided list of columns to define new parameter for each unique value and update the data.table. Not for interaction terms

Usage

factorize(df, col_list, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

df

a data.table containing the columns of interest

col_list

an array of column names that should have factor terms defined

verbose

boolean to control if additional information is printed to the console, also accepts 0/1 integer

Value

returns a list with two named fields. df for the updated dataframe, and cols for the new column names

See Also

Other Data Cleaning Functions: Check_Dupe_Columns(), Check_Trunc(), Correct_Formula_Order(), Date_Shift(), Def_Control(), Def_Control_Guess(), Def_model_control(), Def_modelform_fix(), Joint_Multiple_Events(), Replace_Missing(), Time_Since(), factorize_par(), gen_time_dep(), interact_them()

Examples

library(data.table)
a <- c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6)
b <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
c <- c(0,1,2,1,0,1,0)
df <- data.table::data.table("a"=a,"b"=b,"c"=c)
col_list <- c("c")
val <- factorize(df,col_list)
df <- val$df
new_col <- val$cols