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This function correlates a whole dataframe with a single feature. It automatically runs ohse (one-hot-smart-encoding) so no need to input only numerical values.

Usage

corr_var(
  df,
  var,
  ignore = NULL,
  trim = 0,
  clean = FALSE,
  plot = TRUE,
  top = NA,
  ceiling = 1,
  max_pvalue = 1,
  limit = 10,
  ranks = FALSE,
  zeroes = FALSE,
  save = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE,
  ...
)

# S3 method for corr_var
plot(x, var, max_pvalue = 1, top = NA, limit = NULL, ...)

Arguments

df

Dataframe. It doesn't matter if it's got non-numerical columns: they will be filtered.

var

Variable. Name of the variable to correlate. Note that if the variable var is not numerical, 1. you may define which category to select from using `var_category`; 2. You may have to add redundant = TRUE to enable all categories (instead of n-1).

ignore

Character vector. Which columns do you wish to exclude?

trim

Integer. Trim words until the nth character for categorical values (applies for both, target and values)

clean

Boolean. Use lares::cleanText for categorical values (applies for both, target and values)

plot

Boolean. Do you wish to plot the result? If set to TRUE, the function will return only the plot and not the result's data

top

Integer. If you want to plot the top correlations, define how many

ceiling

Numeric. Remove all correlations above... Range: (0-1]

max_pvalue

Numeric. Filter non-significant variables. Range (0, 1]

limit

Integer. Limit one hot encoding to the n most frequent values of each column. Set to NA to ignore argument.

ranks

Boolean. Add ranking numbers?

zeroes

Do you wish to keep zeroes in correlations too?

save

Boolean. Save output plot into working directory

quiet

Boolean. Keep quiet? If not, show messages

...

Additional parameters passed to corr and cor.test

x

corr_var object

Value

data.frame. With variables, correlation and p-value results for each feature, arranged by descending absolute correlation value.

See also

Other Exploratory: corr_cross(), crosstab(), df_str(), distr(), freqs_df(), freqs_list(), freqs_plot(), freqs(), lasso_vars(), missingness(), plot_cats(), plot_df(), plot_nums(), tree_var()

Other Correlations: corr_cross(), corr()

Examples

Sys.unsetenv("LARES_FONT") # Temporal
data(dft) # Titanic dataset

corr_var(dft, Survived, method = "spearman", plot = FALSE, top = 10)
#> Warning: Not a valid input: Survived was transformed or does not exist.
#>   >> Automatically using 'Survived_TRUE'
#> # A tibble: 10 × 3
#>    variables      corr   pvalue
#>    <chr>         <dbl>    <dbl>
#>  1 Sex_male     -0.543 1.41e-69
#>  2 Fare          0.324 3.47e-23
#>  3 Pclass_3     -0.322 5.51e-23
#>  4 Cabin_       -0.317 3.09e-22
#>  5 Pclass_1      0.286 3.19e-18
#>  6 Cabin_OTHER   0.278 2.95e-17
#>  7 Embarked_C    0.168 4.40e- 7
#>  8 Embarked_S   -0.156 3.04e- 6
#>  9 Parch         0.138 3.45e- 5
#> 10 Ticket_OTHER  0.103 2.17e- 3

# With plots, results are easier to compare:

# Correlate Survived with everything else and show only significant results
dft %>% corr_var(Survived_TRUE, max_pvalue = 0.05)
#> Warning: No shared levels found between `names(values)` of the manual scale and the
#> data's colour values.


# Top 15 with less than 50% correlation and show ranks
dft %>% corr_var(Survived_TRUE, ceiling = .6, top = 15, ranks = TRUE)
#> Removing all correlations greater than 60% (absolute)
#> Warning: No shared levels found between `names(values)` of the manual scale and the
#> data's colour values.