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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 177

Convert strings to factors with levels, but warn when introducing NAs

I'm preparing an old dataset for analysis, and need to convert strings to factors, using levels. I've used a (equally old) data dictionary to set the levels, but have just noticed that it's not entirely correct -- some strings in some variables are not in the data dictionary.

I'd like to prevent strings being dropped (converted to NA) without warning--ideally I'd like things to stop completely if a string is not in the level definition. Is that possible?

df <- data.frame(c1 = letters[1:3])
factor(df$c1, levels = letters[1:2])
# [1] a    b    <NA>

Happy to use dplyr, forcats or something else.

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