[R] Assigning categorical values to dates
Uwe Ligges
||gge@ @end|ng |rom @t@t|@t|k@tu-dortmund@de
Thu Jul 22 10:11:02 CEST 2021
For a data.frame d, I'd simply do
d$cycle <- factor(d$dates, labels=1:3)
but I have not idea about tibbles.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On 22.07.2021 05:12, N. F. Parsons wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If I have a tibble as follows:
>
> tibble(dates = c(rep("2021-07-04", 2), rep("2021-07-25", 3),
> rep("2021-07-18", 4)))
>
> how in the world do I add a column that evaluates each of those dates and
> assigns it a categorical value such that
>
> dates cycle
> <chr> <chr>
> 2021-07-04 1
> 2021-07-04 1
> 2021-07-25 3
> 2021-07-25 3
> 2021-07-25 3
> 2021-07-18 2
> 2021-07-18 2
> 2021-07-18 2
> 2021-07-18 2
>
> Not to further complicate matters, but some months I may only have one
> date, and some months I will have 4 dates - so thats not a fixed quantity.
> We've literally been doing this by hand at my job and I'd like to automate
> it.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Nate Parsons
>
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