dep_percentiles: Calculate Percentiles

In deprivateR: Calculating and Analyzing Measures of Deprivation in the United States

Calculate Percentiles

Description

Calculate percentiles for a given variable in a data frame. This is the method used to calculate ranked percentiles for SVI.

Usage

dep_percentiles(.data, source_var, new_var)

Arguments

.data	A tibble containing the data to be used for calculating percentiles.
source_var	Required; the quoted or unquoted source variable to be divided into percentiles.
new_var	Required; the quoted or unquoted name of the new variable to be created containing the quantile values.

Value

An updated tibble with the percentiles added as a new column or with replaced values in the source column.

Examples

## load sample data
ndi_m <- dep_sample_data(index = "ndi_m")

# calculate percentiles for population 25 years and older
ndi_m <- dep_percentiles(ndi_m, source_var = B06009_001E,
    new_var = pop25_percentile)

# preview the new data
ndi_m[names(ndi_m) %in% c("GEOID", "B06009_001E", "pop25_percentile")]

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