Generate a dummy-variable

Question

I have trouble generating the following dummy-variables in R:

I\'m analyzing yearly time series data (time period 1948-2009). I have two questions:

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Answer 1

We can also use cSplit_e from splitstackshape. Using @zx8754's data

df1 <- data.frame(id = 1:4, year = 1991:1994)
splitstackshape::cSplit_e(df1, "year", fill = 0)

#  id year year_1 year_2 year_3 year_4
#1  1 1991      1      0      0      0
#2  2 1992      0      1      0      0
#3  3 1993      0      0      1      0
#4  4 1994      0      0      0      1

To make it work for data other than numeric we need to specify type as "character" explicitly

df1 <- data.frame(id = 1:4, let = LETTERS[1:4])
splitstackshape::cSplit_e(df1, "let", fill = 0, type = "character")

#  id let let_A let_B let_C let_D
#1  1   A     1     0     0     0
#2  2   B     0     1     0     0
#3  3   C     0     0     1     0
#4  4   D     0     0     0     1