'On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:19 AM, mxkuhn <mxk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg and Frank,
>
> Thanks for the replies. I didn't express myself very well; I'm not interest 
> in the model fitting aspect. I'd just like to get the full set of dummy 
> variables (optimally from model.matrix)
>

Try this:

levels(when$time) <- c("morning", "afternoon", "night")
levels(when$day) <- c("Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun")

contr.dummy <- function(n, ...) diag(n)
mm <- suppressWarnings(model.matrix(~ day + time, when))
mm[is.na(mm)] <- 1
mm

You might also want to set the levels of your factors first so that it
includes levels that are not in the data and so that the levels are
sorted in an order other than alphabetical:


etc.


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