binarize.y {bsnsing}

Recode a Variable with Two Unique Values into an 0/1 Vector

Description

Recode a Variable with Two Unique Values into an 0/1 Vector

Usage

binarize.y(y, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

y

a vector, must contain two unique values.

verbose

a logical value, TRUE or FALSE, indicating whehter details are to be printed on the screen.

Value

a list with three elements: y, a vector of the same length as y, whose entries are coded to 0 and 1, coding.scheme, a character string describing the map from the original coding to 0/1 coding, and ycode, a character vector containing the original level names of y.

Examples

y <- factor(c('good', 'bad', 'good', 'good', 'bad'))
(yb <- binarize.y(y))
y <- c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE)
(yb <- binarize.y(y))
y <- c(1, 2, 2, 1, 2)
(yb <- binarize.y(y))