Recoding Categorical to Numerical

[John Griner]

Hello, and thanks in advance,

     I am trying to recode categorical variable to numeric.  Despite using
lambda, If else, dummy-recoding, and so forth, what I get is from ONE
column that has 4 variables (City, Town, Suburb, Rural), I get FOUR columns:



localeDummy_City          localeDummy_Town      localeDummy_Suburb
localeDummy_Rural       locale_recode



with the corresponding numeric variable.



What I want is the recode to have ONE column that has the numeric
conversion.



For instance:


local_recode

2

4

4

6

2

8

6

2

8

2

2

4

6

4

8

and so forth, where I have set City to 2, and Town to 4, etc.


Again, thanks, John



loca



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