Generate a dummy-variable

Question

I have trouble generating the following dummy-variables in R:

I\'m analyzing yearly time series data (time period 1948-2009). I have two questions:

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Answer 1

Package mlr includes createDummyFeatures for this purpose:

library(mlr)
df <- data.frame(var = sample(c("A", "B", "C"), 10, replace = TRUE))
df

#    var
# 1    B
# 2    A
# 3    C
# 4    B
# 5    C
# 6    A
# 7    C
# 8    A
# 9    B
# 10   C

createDummyFeatures(df, cols = "var")

#    var.A var.B var.C
# 1      0     1     0
# 2      1     0     0
# 3      0     0     1
# 4      0     1     0
# 5      0     0     1
# 6      1     0     0
# 7      0     0     1
# 8      1     0     0
# 9      0     1     0
# 10     0     0     1

createDummyFeatures drops original variable.

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/mlr/versions/2.9/topics/createDummyFeatures
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