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Exercise

Tabulating using bigtable

The bigtabulate package provides optimized routines for creating tables and splitting the rows of big.matrix objects. Let's say you wanted to see the breakdown by ethnicity of mortgages in the housing data. The documentation from the website provides the mapping from the numerical value to ethnicity. In this exercise, you'll create a table using the bigtable() function, found in the bigtabulate package.

Instructions

100 XP

The character vector race_cat is available in your workspace.

  • Load the bigtabulate package.
  • Call bigtable() create a variable called race_table.
  • Rename the elements of race_table to race_cat using the names() function.