Checking if the Object is a Factor in R Programming – is.factor() Function

is.factor() function in R Language is used to check if the object passed to the function is a Factor or not. It returns a boolean value as output.

Syntax: is.factor(Object)

Parameters:
Object: Object to be checked

Example 1:

# Creating a vector
x<-c("female", "male", "male", "female")

# Converting the vector x into a factor named gender
gender<-factor(x)

# Using is.factor() Function
is.factor(gender)

Output:

[1] TRUE

Example 2:

# Creating a vector
x<-c("female", "male", "male", "female")

# Converting the vector x into a factor named gender
gender<-factor(x)

# Using is.factor() Function
is.factor(x)

Output:

[1] FALSE