[R] question about categorical variables in R

[Jeff Newmiller]

You need to read the Introduction to R, paying particular attention to the factors data type, which is designed for this problem.

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On September 11, 2015 7:45:42 AM PDT, Lida Zeighami <lid.zigh at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi dear experts,
>I have a general question in R, about the categorical variable such as
>Gender(Male or Female)
>If I have this column in my data and wanted to do regression model or
>feed
>the data to  seqmeta packages (singlesnp, skat meta) , would you please
>let
>me know should I code them first ( male=0 and female=1) or R
>programming do
>it for me?
>Because when I didn't code them, R still can do the analysis without
>any
>error but I'm not sure it's correct or not?
>Thanks
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