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# The toOneHot-function encodes unordered categorical vector to multiple binary vectors.
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# INPUT:
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# X           Vector with N integer entries between 1 and numClasses
# numclasses  Number of columns, must be be greater than or equal to largest value in X
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# OUTPUT:
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# Y     One-hot-encoded matrix with shape (N, numClasses)
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m_toOneHot = function(Matrix[Double] X, integer numClasses)
        return (Matrix[Double] Y) {
    if(numClasses < max(X))
      stop("numClasses must be >= largest value in X to prevent cropping");
    Y = table(seq(1, nrow(X)), X, nrow(X), numClasses);
}
