I have a categorical variable in a dataframe similar to the following... cat 1 1 3 2 4 I need to convert it to 4 dichotemous variables for each observations like... cat1 cat2 cat3 cat4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Thanks in advance! Shane