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:

1. <

Answer 1

Convert your data to a data.table and use set by reference and row filtering

library(data.table)

dt <- as.data.table(your.dataframe.or.whatever)
dt[, is.1957 := 0]
dt[year == 1957, is.1957 := 1]

Proof-of-concept toy example:

library(data.table)

dt <- as.data.table(cbind(c(1, 1, 1), c(2, 2, 3)))
dt[, is.3 := 0]
dt[V2 == 3, is.3 := 1]