Trying tidymodels: step_num2factor

1 Load packages

library(tidyverse)  # data wrangling
library(tidymodels)  # modelling

2 Understanding recipes and preprocessing

Having defined a recipe in this Kaggle competition, I was left wondering about some details of the recipe definition. Let’s explore that.

3 Load data

traindata_url <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sebastiansauer/Statistiklehre/main/data/titanic/train.csv"
train <- read_csv(traindata_url)

4 Define recipe

titanic_recipe <- 
  
  # define model formula:
  recipe(Survived ~ Pclass, data = train) %>%
  
  # convert numeric outcome to nominal (factor):
  step_num2factor(Survived, levels = c("dead", "alive"))   # not working, #todo
  

5 Prepare (prep()) the recipe

{ error = TRUE} titanic_recipe_prepped <- titanic_recipe %>% prep(verbose = TRUE)

6 Reproducibility

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