How can I handle rare levels of a categorical variable using this action?

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You can use the 'GROUPRARE' method. This method groups rare levels together. You can control this by setting 'preprocessRare' to TRUE and defining the threshold with 'rareThreshold' (for frequency count) or 'rareThresholdPercent' (for percentage).
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