Show the dummy code of a categorical variable

For each value of a categorical variables, show the binary code used in a regression model to represent its value. This is wrapper to the fastDummies::dummy_cols() function.

get_dummy_code(Df, variable)

Arguments

Df

A data frame

variable

A categorical variable (e.g. character vector or factor).

Value

A data frame whose rows provide the dummy code for each distinct value of variable.

Examples

get_dummy_code(PlantGrowth, group)
#>   group group_trt1 group_trt2
#> 1  ctrl          0          0
#> 2  trt1          1          0
#> 3  trt2          0          1