[R] matrix of 1,0's to a data.frame of factors

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

Hi Rajarshi,

try this:

mat <- sample(0:1, 20, TRUE); dim(mat) <- c(5,4)
mat[,1] <- 0; mat[,3] <- 1
#########
dat <- data.frame(mat)
dat[] <- lapply(dat, function(x) factor(x, levels=c("0","1")))
dat
lapply(dat, levels)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rajarshi Guha" <rxg218 at psu.edu>
To: "R" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:26 AM
Subject: [R] matrix of 1,0's to a data.frame of factors


> Hi, I have an integer matrix consisting of 1's and 0's and I would 
> like
> to convert this to a data.frame where each column of the matrix 
> becomes
> a factor variable.
>
> Now, some columns of the matrix have only 1's or only 0's as a 
> result
> there is only 1 level for those columns in the data.frame. However 
> it is
> required that each factor have 2 levels. So my solution is:
>
>    m <- function_returning_a_matrix()
>
>    n <- data.frame(  apply(m,2,as.character) )
>    for (i in 1:ncol(n)) {
>        levels(n[,i]) <- c(1,0)
>    }
>
>
> When m is 118 x 1024 the loop becomes very slow. So I then tried
>
>    n <- data.frame(  apply(m,2,as.character) )
>    apply(n,2,function(x) {levels(x) <- c(1,0)})
>
> But this does not change the levels
>
> Can anybody point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
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