RevCode: Reverse Codes

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Reverse Codes

Description

In psychology variables often need to be recoded into reverse order in cases that items are negatively worded. So it can be ensured that a high value indicate the same type of response on every item. Let's say we have a Likert scale from 1 to 5 and we want to recode the variable so that a 5 becomes a 1, 4 a 2 and so on.

Usage

RevCode(x, ...)

Arguments

x	a numerical or logical vector, or a factor.
...	the dots are sent to min/max, such as possibly to remove NAs before reversing numeric values.

Details

The function recodes based on:

min(x, na.rm=TRUE) + max(x, na.rm=TRUE) - x

Value

the recoded vector

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <[e-mail]>

See Also

Recode

Examples

x <- 1:5
data.frame(x, rev_num=RevCode(x), rev_fac=RevCode(factor(x)))

s <- c(3,4,2,7,4,9,NA,10) 
RevCode(factor(s, levels=1:10))

i <- c(1,0,0,0,1,1)
cbind(i, RevCode(i))

k <- as.logical(c(1,0,0,0,1,1))
cbind(k, RevCode(k))

x <- factor(sample(letters[1:5], 10, replace = TRUE))
RevCode(x)

# we want to set the level 5 to NA before reversing
RevCode(factor(NAIf(x, "e")))

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