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Convert value labels into factor levels

Source: R/labels_to_levels.R
labels_to_levels.Rd

Convert value labels into factor levels

Usage

labels_to_levels(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'factor'
labels_to_levels(x, verbose = TRUE, ...)

# S3 method for class 'data.frame'
labels_to_levels(
  x,
  select = NULL,
  exclude = NULL,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  append = FALSE,
  regex = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

x

A data frame or factor. Other variable types (e.g. numerics) are not allowed.

...

Currently not used.

verbose

Toggle warnings.

select

Variables that will be included when performing the required tasks. Can be either

  • a variable specified as a literal variable name (e.g., column_name),

  • a string with the variable name (e.g., "column_name"), a character vector of variable names (e.g., c("col1", "col2", "col3")), or a character vector of variable names including ranges specified via : (e.g., c("col1:col3", "col5")),

  • a formula with variable names (e.g., ~column_1 + column_2),

  • a vector of positive integers, giving the positions counting from the left (e.g. 1 or c(1, 3, 5)),

  • a vector of negative integers, giving the positions counting from the right (e.g., -1 or -1:-3),

  • one of the following select-helpers: starts_with(), ends_with(), contains(), a range using : or regex(""). starts_with(), ends_with(), and contains() accept several patterns, e.g starts_with("Sep", "Petal").

  • or a function testing for logical conditions, e.g. is.numeric() (or is.numeric), or any user-defined function that selects the variables for which the function returns TRUE (like: foo <- function(x) mean(x) > 3),

  • ranges specified via literal variable names, select-helpers (except regex()) and (user-defined) functions can be negated, i.e. return non-matching elements, when prefixed with a -, e.g. -ends_with(""), -is.numeric or -(Sepal.Width:Petal.Length). Note: Negation means that matches are excluded, and thus, the exclude argument can be used alternatively. For instance, select=-ends_with("Length") (with -) is equivalent to exclude=ends_with("Length") (no -). In case negation should not work as expected, use the exclude argument instead.

If NULL, selects all columns. Patterns that found no matches are silently ignored, e.g. extract_column_names(iris, select = c("Species", "Test")) will just return "Species".

exclude

See select, however, column names matched by the pattern from exclude will be excluded instead of selected. If NULL (the default), excludes no columns.

ignore_case

Logical, if TRUE and when one of the select-helpers or a regular expression is used in select, ignores lower/upper case in the search pattern when matching against variable names.

append

Logical or string. If TRUE, recoded or converted variables get new column names and are appended (column bind) to x, thus returning both the original and the recoded variables. The new columns get a suffix, based on the calling function: "_r" for recode functions, "_n" for to_numeric(), "_f" for to_factor(), or "_s" for slide(). If append=FALSE, original variables in x will be overwritten by their recoded versions. If a character value, recoded variables are appended with new column names (using the defined suffix) to the original data frame.

regex

Logical, if TRUE, the search pattern from select will be treated as regular expression. When regex = TRUE, select must be a character string (or a variable containing a character string) and is not allowed to be one of the supported select-helpers or a character vector of length > 1. regex = TRUE is comparable to using one of the two select-helpers, select = contains("") or select = regex(""), however, since the select-helpers may not work when called from inside other functions (see 'Details'), this argument may be used as workaround.

Value

x, where for all factors former levels are replaced by their value labels.

Details

labels_to_levels() allows to use value labels of factors as their levels.

Examples

data(efc)
# create factor
x <- as.factor(efc$c172code)
# add value labels - these are not factor levels yet
x <- assign_labels(x, values = c(`1` = "low", `2` = "mid", `3` = "high"))
levels(x)
#> [1] "1" "2" "3"
data_tabulate(x)
#> x <categorical>
#> # total N=100 valid N=90
#> 
#> Value |  N | Raw % | Valid % | Cumulative %
#> ------+----+-------+---------+-------------
#> 1     |  8 |  8.00 |    8.89 |         8.89
#> 2     | 66 | 66.00 |   73.33 |        82.22
#> 3     | 16 | 16.00 |   17.78 |       100.00
#> <NA>  | 10 | 10.00 |    <NA> |         <NA>

x <- labels_to_levels(x)
levels(x)
#> [1] "low"  "mid"  "high"
data_tabulate(x)
#> x <categorical>
#> # total N=100 valid N=90
#> 
#> Value |  N | Raw % | Valid % | Cumulative %
#> ------+----+-------+---------+-------------
#> low   |  8 |  8.00 |    8.89 |         8.89
#> mid   | 66 | 66.00 |   73.33 |        82.22
#> high  | 16 | 16.00 |   17.78 |       100.00
#> <NA>  | 10 | 10.00 |    <NA> |         <NA>