How to index a `CatagoricalArray` then make a new array with the same levels

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I have been looking at the source code for CategoricalArray but I can’t figure this out.

vec = CategoricalArray([1,2,1,2])
t = vec[1]
# We know what levels 
t.pool # CategoricalArrays.CategoricalPool{Int64,UInt32}([1,2])
newvec = CategoricalArray(fill(t, 5))
newvec.pool # CategoricalArrays.CategoricalPool{Int64,UInt32}([1])
# not [1, 2]

Because newvec.pool is immutable, you can’t alter it after you create the vector.

Anyone have good enough knowledge of the constructors for CategoricalArrays to help me with this?

2

You can just do levels!(newvec, levels(vec)).

3

Thanks! I’ll add this to my code.

4

Just got around to doing this, sorry.

I’m sorry i wasn’t clear earlier. I needed an array where all you are given is a CategoricalValue, not the full array. The solution i ended up using was

levels!(vec, CategoricalArrays.index(CategoricalArrays.pool(x)))
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OK. Rather do levels!(vec, levels(CategoricalArrays.pool(x))). Using index instead won’t use the correct ordering of levels in some cases (the ordering of the index is an implementation detail).