I have a data frame with columns which draw on the same underlying
universe, so I want them to be factors with the same level set:
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> z <- data.frame(a=c("a","b","c"),b=c("b","c","d"),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> str(z)
'data.frame': 3 obs. of 2 variables:
$ a: chr "a" "b" "c"
$ b: chr "b" "c" "d"
> z$a <- factor(z$a,levels=union(z$a,z$b))
> z$b <- factor(z$b,levels=union(z$a,z$b))
> str(z)
'data.frame': 3 obs. of 2 variables:
$ a: Factor w/ 4 levels "a","b","c","d": 1 2 3
$ b: Factor w/ 4 levels "a","b","c","d": 2 3 4
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factor(z$a,levels=union(z$a,z$b))
is factor(z$a,levels=union(z$a,z$b)) the right way to handle this?
maybe there is a better way to extract levels than union()?
(bear in mind that I have ~10M rows and ~1M levels, so performance is an
issue).
Thanks!
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