Thanks you all for the assistance. This really helps. Hi Bert: While searching nabble i got to know R with factors variables there is no need to create dummy variable. However please consider this situation: I am in the process of building a logistic regression model on NPS data. The outcome variable is CE i.e. customer experience which has 3 rating so ordinal logistic regression will be used. However most of my variables are categorical. For instance one of the variable is agent knowledge which is a 10 point scale.
This agent knowledge is again a 3 rated scale: high medium low hence i need to group these 10 values into 3 groups & then as you suggested i can directly enter them in the model without creating n-1 categories. I have worked on SAS extensively hence found this a bit confusing. Thanks for the help. On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just commenting on the email subject, not the content (which you have > already been helped with): there is no need to *ever* create a dummy > variable for regression in R if what you mean by this is what is > conventionally meant. R will create the model matrix with appropriate > "dummy variables" for factors as needed. See ?contrasts and ?C for > relevant details and/or consult an appropriate R tutorial. > > Of course, if this is not what you meant, than ignore. > > Cheers, > Bert > > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along > and sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 1:49 PM, <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Your ifelse will never work because > > reasons$salutation== "Mr" & reasons$salutation=="Father" is always FALSE > > and so is reasons$salutation=="Mrs" & reasons$salutation=="Miss". > > Try instead | (or), not & (and). > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Rui Barradas > > > > > > > > Citando Shivi Bhatia <shivipm...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Dear Team, > >> > >> I need help with the below code in R: > >> > >> gender_rec<- c('Dr','Father','Mr'=1, 'Miss','MS','Mrs'=2, 3) > >> > >> reasons$salutation<- gender_rec[reasons$salutation]. > >> > >> This code gives me the correct output but it overwrites the > >> reason$salutation variable. I need to create a new variable gender to > >> capture gender details and leave salutation as it is. > >> > >> i tried the below syntax but it is converting all to 1. > >> > >> reasons$gender<- ifelse(reasons$salutation== "Mr" & reasons$salutation== > >> "Father","Male", ifelse(reasons$salutation=="Mrs" & > reasons$salutation== > >> "Miss","Female",1)) > >> > >> Please suggest. > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.htmland provide commented, > >> minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.