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Hi, I need to create the correlation table of a set of categorical data (sex, marital_status, car_type, etc.) for a given population. Basically what I'm looking for is a function like cor( ) working on factors (and, if possible, considering NAs as a level). To better express myself, the manual way should be: 1) to create a set of n-1 numeric dummies (whose assigned values a...

What would be a good way to store profile-information, in the cases where the information can be selected from a list of choices? i.e. gender (male,female), religion or marital status. The lists don''t change, so putting that in the db doesn''t seem like a good idea, but how do i put something like this in a model? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received