Package: fastDummies 1.7.6

fastDummies: Fast Creation of Dummy (Binary) Columns and Rows from Categorical Variables

Creates dummy columns from columns that have categorical variables (character or factor types). You can also specify which columns to make dummies out of, or which columns to ignore. Also creates dummy rows from character, factor, and Date columns. This package provides a significant speed increase from creating dummy variables through model.matrix().

Authors:Jacob Kaplan [aut, cre], Benjamin Schlegel [ctb]

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NEWS

# Install 'fastDummies' in R:
install.packages('fastDummies', repos = c('https://jacobkap.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/jacobkap/fastdummies/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://jacobkap.github.io

On CRAN:

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binary-datadummy-columnsdummy-datadummy-rowsdummy-variable

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Exports:dummy_colsdummy_columnsdummy_rows

Dependencies:clidata.tablegluelifecyclemagrittrpillarpkgconfigrlangstringistringrtibbleutf8vctrs

Making dummy rows with dummy_rows()

Rendered frommaking-dummy-rows.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 22 2026.

Last update: 2018-01-05
Started: 2018-01-04

Making dummy variables with dummy_cols()

Rendered frommaking-dummy-variables.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 22 2026.

Last update: 2018-01-05
Started: 2018-01-04