R: Expanding an R factor into dummy columns for every factor level
I have a quite big data frame in R with two columns. I am trying to make out of the Code column ( factor type with 858 levels) the dummy variables. The problem is that the R Studio always crashed when I am trying to do that. > str(d) 'data.frame': 649226 obs. of 2 variables: $ User: int 210 210 210 210 269 317 317 317 317 326 ... $ Code : Factor w/ 858 levels "AA02","AA03",..: 164 494 538 626 464 496 435 464 475 163 ... The User column is not unique, meaning that there can be several rows with the same User . Doesn't matter if in the end the amount of rows remains the same or the rows with the