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James Wong
James Wong

Reputation: 1137

cut continuous variables to categorical variables in r (with separate values as groups)

I have a continuous variable ranging from 0 to 1000+. However, I want to convert them into groups with the lowest value 0 as a single group. 

x <- cut(x, breaks = c(0,50,100,200,500,1000)),
                   labels = c("0","1-50","51-100","101-199","200-499",
                              "500-999",">1000")

Using cut function has not been able to achieve this purpose. Is there anything that I'm missing?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4708

Answers (1)

Jake Kaupp
Jake Kaupp

Reputation: 8072

You've got some issues in your call to cut

  1. You've got a closing bracket after your breaks that should be there, prematurely ending the call.
  2. You've too many labels (7) for the breaks (5).

This should work:

x <- cut(x, breaks = c(0,50,100,200,500,1000,max(x)),labels = c("0-50","51-100","101-199","200-499","500-999", "1000+"), include.lowest = TRUE)

Upvotes: 3

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