[R-pkg-team] Bug#1056301: ITP: r-cran-fastdummies -- fast creation of dummy columns and rows from categorical variables

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Subject: ITP: r-cran-fastdummies -- fast creation of dummy columns and rows from categorical variables
Package: wnpp
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : r-cran-fastdummies
  Version         : 1.7.3
  Upstream Author : Jacob Kaplan,
* URL             : https://cran.r-project.org/package=fastDummies
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description     : fast creation of dummy columns and rows from categorical variables
 Creates dummy columns from columns that have
 categorical variables (character or factor types). You can also
 specify which columns to make dummies out of, or which columns to
 ignore. Also creates dummy rows from character, factor, and Date
 columns. This package provides a significant speed increase from
 creating dummy variables through model.matrix().

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-fastdummies