I have had trouble generating the following dummy-variables in R:
I'm analyzing yearly time series data (time period 1948-2009). I have two questions:
How do I generate a dummy variable for observation #10, i.e. for year 1957 (value = 1 at 1957 and zero otherwise)?
How do I generate a dummy variable which is zero before 1957 and takes the value 1 from 1957 and onwards to 2009?
Another way is to use mtabulate from qdapTools package, i.e.
df <- data.frame(var = sample(c("A", "B", "C"), 5, replace = TRUE))
var
#1 C
#2 A
#3 C
#4 B
#5 B
library(qdapTools)
mtabulate(df$var)
which gives,
A B C 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 5 0 1 0
This one liner in base R
model.matrix( ~ iris$Species - 1)
gives
iris$Speciessetosa iris$Speciesversicolor iris$Speciesvirginica
1 1 0 0
2 1 0 0
3 1 0 0
4 1 0 0
5 1 0 0
6 1 0 0
7 1 0 0
8 1 0 0
9 1 0 0
10 1 0 0
11 1 0 0
12 1 0 0
13 1 0 0
14 1 0 0
15 1 0 0
16 1 0 0
17 1 0 0
18 1 0 0
19 1 0 0
20 1 0 0
21 1 0 0
22 1 0 0
23 1 0 0
24 1 0 0
25 1 0 0
26 1 0 0
27 1 0 0
28 1 0 0
29 1 0 0
30 1 0 0
31 1 0 0
32 1 0 0
33 1 0 0
34 1 0 0
35 1 0 0
36 1 0 0
37 1 0 0
38 1 0 0
39 1 0 0
40 1 0 0
41 1 0 0
42 1 0 0
43 1 0 0
44 1 0 0
45 1 0 0
46 1 0 0
47 1 0 0
48 1 0 0
49 1 0 0
50 1 0 0
51 0 1 0
52 0 1 0
53 0 1 0
54 0 1 0
55 0 1 0
56 0 1 0
57 0 1 0
58 0 1 0
59 0 1 0
60 0 1 0
61 0 1 0
62 0 1 0
63 0 1 0
64 0 1 0
65 0 1 0
66 0 1 0
67 0 1 0
68 0 1 0
69 0 1 0
70 0 1 0
71 0 1 0
72 0 1 0
73 0 1 0
74 0 1 0
75 0 1 0
76 0 1 0
77 0 1 0
78 0 1 0
79 0 1 0
80 0 1 0
81 0 1 0
82 0 1 0
83 0 1 0
84 0 1 0
85 0 1 0
86 0 1 0
87 0 1 0
88 0 1 0
89 0 1 0
90 0 1 0
91 0 1 0
92 0 1 0
93 0 1 0
94 0 1 0
95 0 1 0
96 0 1 0
97 0 1 0
98 0 1 0
99 0 1 0
100 0 1 0
101 0 0 1
102 0 0 1
103 0 0 1
104 0 0 1
105 0 0 1
106 0 0 1
107 0 0 1
108 0 0 1
109 0 0 1
110 0 0 1
111 0 0 1
112 0 0 1
113 0 0 1
114 0 0 1
115 0 0 1
116 0 0 1
117 0 0 1
118 0 0 1
119 0 0 1
120 0 0 1
121 0 0 1
122 0 0 1
123 0 0 1
124 0 0 1
125 0 0 1
126 0 0 1
127 0 0 1
128 0 0 1
129 0 0 1
130 0 0 1
131 0 0 1
132 0 0 1
133 0 0 1
134 0 0 1
135 0 0 1
136 0 0 1
137 0 0 1
138 0 0 1
139 0 0 1
140 0 0 1
141 0 0 1
142 0 0 1
143 0 0 1
144 0 0 1
145 0 0 1
146 0 0 1
147 0 0 1
148 0 0 1
149 0 0 1
150 0 0 1
We can also use cSplit_e from splitstackshape. Using @zx8754's data
df1 <- data.frame(id = 1:4, year = 1991:1994)
splitstackshape::cSplit_e(df1, "year", fill = 0)
# id year year_1 year_2 year_3 year_4
#1 1 1991 1 0 0 0
#2 2 1992 0 1 0 0
#3 3 1993 0 0 1 0
#4 4 1994 0 0 0 1
To make it work for data other than numeric we need to specify type as "character" explicitly
df1 <- data.frame(id = 1:4, let = LETTERS[1:4])
splitstackshape::cSplit_e(df1, "let", fill = 0, type = "character")
# id let let_A let_B let_C let_D
#1 1 A 1 0 0 0
#2 2 B 0 1 0 0
#3 3 C 0 0 1 0
#4 4 D 0 0 0 1