polars cut for dataframe
Bin continuous values into discrete categories for a series.
Signature
> polars cut {flags} (breaks)
Flags
-
--labels, -l {list<string>}: Names of the categories. The number of labels must be equal to the number of cut points plus one. -
--left_closed, -c: Set the intervals to be left-closed instead of right-closed. -
--include_breaks, -b: Include a column with the right endpoint of the bin each observation falls in. This will change the data type of the output from a Categorical to a Struct.
Parameters
-
breaks: Dataframe that contains a series of unique cut points.
Input/output types:
| input | output |
|---|---|
| polars_dataframe | polars_dataframe |
| polars_lazyframe | polars_lazyframe |
Examples
Divide the column into three categories.
> [-2, -1, 0, 1, 2] | polars into-df | polars cut [-1, 1] --labels ["a", "b", "c"]
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