Jane,
the function col( ) does the trick:
f <- c(0, 2, 1, 2, 0)
m <- matrix(0, nrow = length(f), ncol = max(f))
m[col(m) <= f ] <- 1
data.frame(m)
X1 X2
1 0 0
2 1 1
3 1 0
4 1 1
5 0 0
Jan
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At 15:47 25.06.98 -0400, Jing (Jane) Xu wrote:
>
>Hi, everyone,
>
>Is there a simple way to create (n-1) dummy variables from a single
>variable which takes values 0,1,...,n-1?
>
>Say, I have a variable f like:
> f
> 0
> 2
> 1
> 2
> 0
>how can I get something like:
> d1 d2
> 0 0
> 1 1
> 1 0
> 1 1
> 0 0
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Jane
>
>
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