create.dummies {bnpa}

Creates dummy variables in the data set and remove master variables

Description

This function receives a data set and the name of variables to be transformed into dummies. Then it create the dummy variables, transform it into numeric (to work with PA generation) and remove the master variables that originates the dummies.

Usage

create.dummies(data.to.work, dummy.vars)

Arguments

data.to.work

is a data set containing the variables to tranform.

dummy.vars

are the variables to be transformed.

Value

the new data set

Author(s)

Elias Carvalho

References

Yves Rosseel (2012). lavaan: An R Package for Structural Equation Modeling. Journal of Statistical Software, 48(2),1-36.

Examples

# Clean environment
closeAllConnections()
rm(list=ls())
# Set enviroment
# setwd("to your working directory")
# Load packages
library(bnpa)
# Use working data sets from package
data(dataQualiN)
# Show the structure before
str(dataQualiN)
# Set possible dummy variables
dummy.vars <- c("A", "B")
# Create dummies
dataQualiN <- bnpa::create.dummies(dataQualiN, dummy.vars)
# Show the structure before
str(dataQualiN)