Binning numerical data
Sometimes, we need to convert numerical data to categorical data or a factor. For example, Naïve Bayes classification requires all variables (independent and dependent) to be categorical. In other situations, we may want to apply a classification method to a problem where the dependent variable is numeric but needs to be categorical.
Getting ready
From the code files for this chapter, store the data-conversion.csv file in the working directory of your R environment. Then read the data:
> students <- read.csv("data-conversion.csv")How to do it...
Income is a numeric variable, and you may want to create a categorical variable from it by creating bins. Suppose you want to label incomes of $10,000 or below as Low, incomes between ...
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