Convert numeric variable into categorical variable

Source: R/categorise.R

This is a wrapper around the cut() function.

categorise(x, breaks)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector to be passed through.

breaks

Break points for the categories. Both the top and bottom breaks must be provided.

Value

Returns a character vector.

Examples

categorise(seq(10),breaks=c(0,3,10))
#>  [1] "[0,3]"  "[0,3]"  "[0,3]"  "(3,10]" "(3,10]" "(3,10]" "(3,10]" "(3,10]"
#>  [9] "(3,10]" "(3,10]"