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dummy

Dummy variables (experimental)

Description

Largely a wrapper for model.matrix that accepts a factor, f, and returns a dummy matrix with nlevels(f)-1 columns (the first column is dropped by default). Useful whenever one wishes to avoid the behaviour of model.matrix of always returning an nlevels(f)-column matrix, either by the addition of an intercept column, or by keeping one column for all levels.

Usage

dummy(f, levelsToKeep)

Arguments

`f`	An object coercible to `factor`.
`levelsToKeep`	An optional character vector giving the subset of `levels(f)` to be converted to dummy variables.

Value

A model.matrix with dummy variables as columns.

Examples

data(Orthodont,package="nlme")
lmer(distance ~ age + (age|Subject) +
     (0+dummy(Sex, "Female")|Subject), data = Orthodont)

lme4

Linear Mixed-Effects Models using 'Eigen' and S4

v1.1-26

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Douglas Bates [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8316-9503>), Martin Maechler [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8685-9910>), Ben Bolker [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2127-0443>), Steven Walker [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4394-9078>), Rune Haubo Bojesen Christensen [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4494-3399>), Henrik Singmann [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4842-3657>), Bin Dai [ctb], Fabian Scheipl [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8172-3603>), Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Peter Green [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0238-9852>), John Fox [ctb], Alexander Bauer [ctb], Pavel N. Krivitsky [ctb, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9101-3362>, shared copyright on simulate.formula)

Initial release