
Creation of dummies variables and others variables
dummy_creation.Rd
This function is used to generate necessary dummy variables. It can be used to optimize the timetable schedule of HEC students, as it generates all the necessary inputs.
It uses a excel file which contains 13 columns, which are:
- Semester (numerical, e.g. 3)
- Day (character, e.g. Monday)
- Class (character, e.g. Programming Tools in Data Science)
- Professor (character, S. Orso)
- Credits (numerical, e.g. 6)
- First_7_Weeks (binary, e.g. 1)
- Last_7_weeks (binary, e.g 1)
- Start (decimal hour, e.g. 8.5)
- End (decimal hour, e.g. 12.00)
- Start_nice (POSIXct, e.g. 1899-12-31 08:30:00)
- End_nice (POSIXct, e.g. 1899-12-31 12:00:00)
- BA_orientation (binary, e.g. 1)
- BA_Mandatory (binary, e.g. 0)