In a large data set, identify which variables are categorical and which are numeric

Question

I have a list of 65 variables, and I want to separate out the lists of numerical and categorical variable. What can be command for this task.

Accepted Answer

You can use `split` with `sapply` to group the variables together:

```
split(names(iris),sapply(iris, function(x) paste(class(x), collapse=" ")))
$factor
[1] "Species"

$numeric
[1] "Sepal.Length" "Sepal.Width"  "Petal.Length" "Petal.Width"
```

Note the use of `paste` to collapse together any multi-class object's class names.

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