collapse_cat: Collapse data by values of a categorical variable

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Collapse data by values of a categorical variable

Description

Collapse values in a categorical variable into one defined level

Usage

collapse_cat(data, var, levels, new_level, name = NULL)

Arguments

data	a dataframe to collapse
var	a string of the name of the categorical variable to collapse
levels	a character vector of the levels to be collapsed
new_level	a string for the new level
name	a name for the new variable

Value

the original dataframe containing a new column of the collapsed variable with tidyverse code attached

Author(s)

Zhaoming Su

See Also

code

Examples

collapsed <- collapse_cat(iris,
    var = "Species",
    c("versicolor", "virginica"),
    new_level = "V"
)
cat(code(collapsed))
tail(collapsed)

iNZightTools documentation built on Oct. 12, 2023, 5:06 p.m.