I’m trying to use JuliaDB to load tables and then use MixedModels to fit models. The MixedModels package requires the clustering variable “id” to be categorical, but in my dataset “id” is integer. So my question is, how can I change the type of “id” to categorical after loading the table? One sol…

You may have entered a typo, below is the exact script I just ran in a fresh environment using JuliaDB, ScientificTypes t = JuliaDB.table(1:10, randn(10), rand(Bool, 10); names = [:x, :y, :z]); t2 = coerce(t, :z => Multiclass) @show typeof(t2) @show typeof(select(t2, :z)) Here’s the output typ…

How to change the type of a variable for a loaded table?

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kai January 6, 2020, 9:34pm 12

Thanks for checking. I upgraded to Julia v1.3.1 and copied the same code above and it works now. So it might have been a problem with v1.1. In any case, thanks for your help.

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How to change the type of a variable for a loaded table?

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