Converts continuous variable into factor categories.
categorize(continuous_var, nbins = 4, units = "", type = 7, digits = 1)
Arguments
- continuous_var
continuous variable data
- nbins
number of bins to break data into, default is 4
- units
string, optional units string to add to labels of categorized data
- type
type argument for stats::quantile, default is 7
- digits
number of digits to round quantile breaks to for labels, default is 1
Value
a vector of categorized data as factor
Examples
x <- rnorm(1000, mean = 10, sd = 5)
xc <- categorize(x, nbins = 5)