List of Levels for all Factor variables

HI,
You can also try this:
set.seed(1)
dat1<-data.frame(col1=factor(sample(1:25,10,replace=TRUE)),col2=sample(letters[1:10],10,replace=TRUE),col3=factor(rep(1:5,each=2)))

sapply(lapply(mapply(c,lapply(names(sapply(dat1,levels)),function(x) x),sapply(dat1,levels)),function(x) paste(x[1],":",paste(x[-1],collapse=" "))),print)
#[1] "col1 : 2 6 7 10 15 16 17 23 24"
#[1] "col2 : b c d e g h j"
#[1] "col3 : 1 2 3 4 5"
#[1] "col1 : 2 6 7 10 15 16 17 23 24" "col2 : b c d e g h j"????????? 
#[3] "col3 : 1 2 3 4 5"?? 

A.K. ?? 




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From: "Lopez, Dan" <lopez235 at llnl.gov>
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Subject: [R] List of Levels for all Factor variables

Hi,

I want to get a clean succinct list of all levels for all my factor variables.

I have a dataframe that's something like #1 below. This is just an example subset of my data and my actual dataset has 70 variables. I know how to narrow down my list of variables to just my factor variables by using #2 below (thanks to Bert Gunter). I can also get list of all levels for all my factor variables using #3 below. But I what I want to find out is if there is a way to get this list in a similar fashion to what the str function returns: without all the extra spacing and carriage returns. That's what I mean by "clean succinct list".

BTW I also tried playing around with several of the parameters for the str function itself but could not find a way to accomplish what I want to accomplish.



1.? ? ?  DATAFRAME

str(mydata)

'data.frame':? 11868 obs. of? 26 variables:
$ EMPLID? ? ? ? ? : int? 431108 32709 19730 10850 48786 2004 237628 558 3423 743175 ...
$ NAME? ? ? ? ? ? : Factor w/ 6402 levels "Aaron Cathy E",..: 2777 242 161 104 336 4254 1595 1244 3669 4760 ...
$ TRAIN? ? ? ? ?  : int? 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
$ TARGET? ? ? ? ? : int? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
$ APPT_TYP_CD_LL? : Factor w/ 3 levels "FX","IN","IP": 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
$ ORG_NAM_LL? ? ? : Factor w/ 18 levels "Business","Chief Financial Officer",..: 11 7 7 9 4 4 18 18 8 4 ...
$ NEW_DISCIPLINE? : Factor w/ 15 levels "100s","300s",..: 14 6 4 1 11 11 14 2 1 1 ...
$ SERIES? ? ? ? ? : Factor w/ 10 levels "100s","300s",..: 9 6 4 1 9 9 9 2 1 1 ...
$ AGE? ? ? ? ? ?  : int? 62 53 46 62 55 59 50 36 34 53 ...
$ SERVICE? ? ? ?  : int? 13 29 16 26 18 9 19 11 8 26 ...
$ AGE_SERVICE? ?  : int? 75 82 62 87 73 69 69 47 42 79 ...
$ HIEDUCLV? ? ? ? : Factor w/ 6 levels "Associate","Bachelor",..: 5 6 6 6 5 2 3 2 2 1 ...
$ GENDER? ? ? ? ? : Factor w/ 2 levels "F","M": 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 ...
$ RETCD? ? ? ? ?  : Factor w/ 2 levels "TCP1","TCP2": 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 ...
$ FLSASTATUS? ? ? : Factor w/ 2 levels "E","N": 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
$ MONTHLY_RT? ? ? : int? 17640 6932 5845 9809 11473 8719 19190 8986 7231 6758 ...
$ RETSTATUSDERIVED: Factor w/ 4 levels "401K","DOUBLE DIPPERS",..: 2 4 3 2 3 4 4 3 4 3 ...
$ ETHNIC_GRP_CD?  : Factor w/ 8 levels "AMIND","ASIAN",..: 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ...
$ COMMUTE_BIN? ?  : Factor w/ 7 levels "","<15","15 - 24",..: 5 7 2 2 4 3 3 6 3 2 ...
$ EEO_CLASS? ? ?  : Factor w/ 4 levels "M","S1","S2",..: 1 2 4 4 4 4 1 2 4 2 ...
$ WRK_SCHED? ? ?  : Factor w/ 6 levels "12HR","4/10s",..: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 ...
$ FWT_MAR_STATUS? : Factor w/ 2 levels "M","S": 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 ...
$ COVERED_DP? ? ? : int? 2 2 4 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 ...
$ YRS_IN_SERIES?  : int? 13 29 16 26 18 9 19 3 7 26 ...
$ SAVINGS_PCT? ?  : int? 10 0 6 19 8 0 10 15 15 18 ...
$ Generation? ? ? : Factor w/ 4 levels "Baby Boomers",..: 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 ...

2. Create mydataF to only include factor variables (and exclude NAME which I am not interested in)

mydataF<-mydata[,sapply(mydata,function(x)is.factor(x))][,-1]

3. Get a list of all levels

sapply(mydataF,function(x)levels(x))

$APPT_TYP_CD_LL

[1] "FX" "IN" "IP"



$ORG_NAM_LL

[1] "Business"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "Chief Financial Officer"? ? ? ?  "Chief Information Office"? ? ? ? "Computation"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "Engineering"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "ESH and Quality"

[7] "Facilities and Infrastructure"?  "Global Security"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "NIF"? ? ? ? ? "NO"? ? ? ? ? ? ? "Office of the Director"? ? ? ? ? "Operations and Business Office"

[13] "Physical and Life Sciences"? ? ? "Planning and Financial Services" "ST"?  "Security Organization"? ? ? ? ?  "Strategic Human Resources Mgmt"? "WCI"



$NEW_DISCIPLINE

[1] "100s"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "300s"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "400s"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "500s"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "600s"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "800s"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  "900s"

[8] "Chem? Science"? ? ? ? ? ? ? "Engineering"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "Life Sciences"? ? ? ? ? ? ? "Math? Computer Science? IT" "Physics"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "pre100s"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "PSTS Other"

[15] "Re"



$SERIES?  ......

Daniel Lopez
Workforce Analyst
HRIM - Workforce Analytics & Metrics


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