Create categorical covariates
makeDummies(data, covariate, varName)a dataframe containing the dataset that needs to be used
the covariate that needs to be converted to categorical; must be present in the data
the variable name to which the given covariate is to be added
a list of updated data with covariates added, an expression that needs to be added to the model expression, the list of covariate names, and the column names corresponding to the categorical covariates