dummies package is no longer available

[RobertTalbert]

Chapter 13 of the book uses the dummies package, but there is an error when loading it:

  package ‘dummies’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

It looks like the package has simply been removed: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dummies/index.html

[ivelasq]

Thank you for letting us know, Robert! That's too bad that dummies has been removed from CRAN. We're planning on updating the book and will use another package. Appreciate it!