cloneVariable: Clone a variable.

In eatGADS: Data Management of Large Hierarchical Data

Clone a variable.

Description

Clone a variable as part of a GADSdat object.

Usage

cloneVariable(
  GADSdat,
  varName,
  new_varName,
  label_suffix = "",
  checkVarName = TRUE
)

Arguments

GADSdat	GADSdat object imported via eatGADS.
varName	Name of the variable to be cloned.
new_varName	Name of the new variable.
label_suffix	Suffix added to variable label for the newly created variable in the GADSdat.
checkVarName	Logical. Should new_varName be checked by checkVarNames?

Details

The variable is simply duplicated and assigned a new name.

Value

Returns a GADSdat.

Examples

# duplicate the variable schtype
pisa_new <- cloneVariable(pisa, varName = "schtype", new_varName = "schtype_new")

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