Checking if the Object is a Factor in R Programming – is.factor() Function
is.factor()
function in R Language is used to check if the object passed to the function is a Factor or not. It returns a boolean value as output.
Syntax: is.factor(Object)
Parameters:
Object: Object to be checked
Example 1:
# Creating a vector x< - c( "female" , "male" , "male" , "female" ) # Converting the vector x into a factor named gender gender< - factor(x) # Using is.factor() Function is .factor(gender) |
Output:
[1] TRUE
Example 2:
# Creating a vector x< - c( "female" , "male" , "male" , "female" ) # Converting the vector x into a factor named gender gender< - factor(x) # Using is.factor() Function is .factor(x) |
Output:
[1] FALSE
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