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categoryEncodings

Category Variable Encodings

v1.4.3 · Mar 2, 2020 · GPL-3

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Simple, fast, and automatic encodings for category data using a data.table backend. Most of the methods are an implementation of "Sufficient Representation for Categorical Variables" by Johannemann, Hadad, Athey, Wager (2019) <arXiv:1908.09874>, particularly their mean, sparse principal component analysis, low rank representation, and multinomial logit encodings.

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Maintainer: ‘Juraj Szitas <szitas.juraj13@gmail.com>’

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  Hadad, Athey, Wager (2019) <arXiv:1908.09874>, particularly their mean,
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
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Maintainer: ‘Juraj Szitas <szitas.juraj13@gmail.com>’

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NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 9, 2026
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CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Juraj Szitas <szitas.juraj13@gmail.com>’

The Description field contains
  Hadad, Athey, Wager (2019) <arXiv:1908.09874>, particularly their mean,
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Juraj Szitas <szitas.juraj13@gmail.com>’

The Description field contains
  Hadad, Athey, Wager (2019) <arXiv:1908.09874>, particularly their mean,
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies glmnet sparsepca data.table categoryEncodings

Version History

new 1.4.3 Mar 9, 2026