Dealing with factors
A factor is an headache
I have a dataset, cleaning which has been a pain lately. I’m going to use 20 observations of the imported dataset in this post to demonstrate how pathetically have I been advancing with it.
| plot | jan_23_2017 | jan_26_2017 | jan_29_2017 | feb_02_2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | b | am |
| 2 | f | s | 1p | 10p |
| 3 | b | a | sm | 3p |
| 4 | b | b | ap | 2 |
| 5 | 0 | b | bp | s |
| 6 | b | a | sp | 3 |
Providing it a context, the columns represent multiple observations of same variable at different dates, as apparent from the column names.