Togaware DATA MINING
Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
Google

Remove Levels from a Factor

Some tools will attempt to model all levels in an output variable. If there are no entities in the dataset with a value for one of the levels of an output variable, the tool will fail (e.g., randomForest). To remove unused levels from a factor:

> dataset$Target <- dataset$Target[,drop=TRUE]



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