Categorise hours into "low, medium, high"

[felix07]

I'm pretty new to R and I am a bit stuck. I have to create a variable to categorise study hours into low medium and high. I already have a column with the study hours and I created a new variable called Study_Effort but now I don't know how to categorize the hours into low medium and high

[joels]

You can use the cut function for this. For example:

library(tidyverse)

# Fake data
set.seed(3)
d = tibble(study.hours = rnorm(100, 20, 8))

hist(d$study.hours)

d = d %>% 
  mutate(study.hours.category = cut(study.hours, 
                                    breaks=c(0,15,30,Inf),
                                    labels=c("low","medium","high"),
                                    include.lowest=TRUE))
d
#> # A tibble: 100 × 2
#>    study.hours study.hours.category
#>          <dbl> <fct>               
#>  1        12.3 low                 
#>  2        17.7 medium              
#>  3        22.1 medium              
#>  4        10.8 low                 
#>  5        21.6 medium              
#>  6        20.2 medium              
#>  7        20.7 medium              
#>  8        28.9 medium              
#>  9        10.2 low                 
#> 10        30.1 high                
#> # … with 90 more rows

ggplot(d, aes(study.hours.category, study.hours)) + 
  geom_point() +
  expand_limits(y=0)

^{Created on 2022-01-05 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}