Convert specified columns to factor

Usage

convert2Factor(data, columns)

Arguments

data: The input data frame
columns: The column names to be converted to factors

Value

The modified data frame with specified columns converted to factors

Examples

data <- data.frame( Category1 = c("A", "B", "A", "B"),
                     Category2 = c("X", "Y", "X", "Z"),
                     Value = 1:4,
                     stringsAsFactors = FALSE )
## -- Convert columns to factors
convert2Factor(data, columns = c("Category1", "Category2"))
#>   Category1 Category2 Value
#> 1         A         X     1
#> 2         B         Y     2
#> 3         A         X     3
#> 4         B         Z     4