Hello R-users,
  
The below is a snippet of my data:
 
  
fid  crop  year  value   
5_1_1  SWHE  1995  171   
5_1_1  SWHE  1997  696   
5_1_1  BARL  1996  114   
5_1_1  BARL  1997  344   
5_2_2  SWHE  1995  120   
5_2_2  SWHE  1996  511   
5_2_2  BARL  1996  239   
5_2_2  BARL  1997  349   
 
Here, I want to create dummy variables with the names of the content of a column 'crop' in a way that the new variable 'SWHE' would receive a value of 1 if the column 'crop' contains 'SWHE' and 0 otherwise. So, I would have two new variables SWHE and BARL as below:
 
  
fid  crop  year  value  SWHE  BARL   
5_1_1  SWHE  1995  171  1  0   
5_1_1  SWHE  1997  696  1  0   
5_1_1  BARL  1996  114  0  1   
5_1_1  BARL  1997  344  0  1   
5_2_2  SWHE  1995  120  1  0   
5_2_2  SWHE  1996  511  1  0   
5_2_2  BARL  1996  239  0  1   
5_2_2  BARL  1997  349  0  1   
 
 
Cheers,
Shyam
Nepal
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