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man/var2fct.Rd

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+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/ds2dd_detailed.R
+\name{var2fct}
+\alias{var2fct}
+\title{Convert vector to factor based on threshold of number of unique levels}
+\usage{
+var2fct(data, unique.n)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{data}{vector or data.frame column}
+
+\item{unique.n}{threshold to convert class to factor}
+}
+\value{
+vector
+}
+\description{
+This is a wrapper of forcats::as_factor, which sorts numeric vectors before
+factoring, but levels character vectors in order of appearance.
+}
+\examples{
+sample(seq_len(4), 20, TRUE) |>
+  var2fct(6) |>
+  summary()
+sample(letters, 20) |>
+  var2fct(6) |>
+  summary()
+sample(letters[1:4], 20, TRUE) |> var2fct(6)
+}