R Observatory: Metrics for makedummies version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

makedummies

1.2.1

Create Dummy Variables from Categorical Data

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69.7Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Toshiaki AraFirst published 2017-01-026 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create dummy variables from categorical data. This package can convert categorical data (factor and ordered) into dummy variables and handle multiple columns simultaneously. This package enables to select whether a dummy variable for base group is included (for principal component analysis/factor analysis) or excluded (for regression analysis) by an option. 'makedummies' function accepts 'data.frame', 'matrix', and 'tbl' (tibble) class (by 'tibble' package). 'matrix' class data is automatically converted to 'data.frame' class.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("makedummies", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("toshi-ara/makedummies")

Development version from toshi-ara/makedummies. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-makedummies

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-makedummies

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-makedummies

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 99 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Rank #1,368 · ~191/day · ~5.8K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ toshi-ara/makedummies

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46 commits · Last activity 2020-08-03

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

tibble

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Suggests (0)

none

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Toshiaki Ara

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-02
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 11 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Ara, T. (2019). makedummies: Create Dummy Variables from Categorical Data (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.makedummies

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for makedummies version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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