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Bookmark or Share- Pandas - make a column dtype object or Factor - Stack OverflowFactor and Categorical are the same, as far as I know. I think it was initially called Factor, and then changed to Categorical. To convert to Categorical maybe you can use pandas.Categorical.from_array, something like this:
- r - How to convert a factor to integer\numeric without loss of ...But annoyingly, there is nothing to handle the factor -> numeric conversion. As an extension of Joshua Ulrich's answer, I would suggest to overcome this omission with the definition of your own idiomatic function: as.double.factor
- How can I customize the tab-to-space conversion factor in VS Code?How do I customize the tab-to-space conversion factor when using Visual Studio Code? For instance, right now in HTML it appears to produce two spaces per press of TAB, but in TypeScript it produces 4.
- r - Why use as.factor() instead of just factor() - Stack Overflow‘factor(x, exclude = NULL)’ applied to a factor without ‘NA’s is a no-operation unless there are unused levels: in that case, a factor with the reduced level set is returned. ‘as.factor’ coerces its argument to a factor. It is an abbreviated (sometimes faster) form of ‘factor’. Performance: as.factor > factor when input is a factor
- Convert data.frame column format from character to factorI would like to change the format (class) of some columns of my data.frame object (mydf) from charactor to factor. I don't want to do this when I'm reading the text file by read.table() function. ...
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