colcomb2class: Combine Columns to Class

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Combine Columns to Class

Description

Combine columns from qdap classes or a data.frame.

Usage

colcomb2class(
  dataframe,
  combined.columns,
  class = "list",
  percent = TRUE,
  digits = 2,
  elim.old = TRUE,
  zero.replace = 0,
  override = FALSE
)

Arguments

dataframe	A dataframe or qdap class (e.g., termco, question_type, pos_by, character_table).
combined.columns	A list of named vectors of the colnames/indexes of the numeric columns to be combined (summed). If a vector is unnamed a name will be assigned.
class	The class to assign to the output.
percent	logical. If TRUE output given as percent. If FALSE the output is proportion.
digits	Integer; number of decimal places to round when printing.
elim.old	logical. If TRUE eliminates the columns that are combined together by the named match.list. TRUE outputs the table proportionally (see prop).
zero.replace	Value to replace 0 values with.
override	logical. If TRUE the printing options (e.g., percent, digits, etc.) of the dataframe argument are overrode.

Value

Returns a list with raw counts, percents and combined raw and percents.

Examples

## Not run: 
## `termco` example
ml <- list(
    cat1 = c(" the ", " a ", " an "),
    cat2 = c(" I'" ),
    "good",
    the = c("the", " the ", " the", "the")
)
dat1 <- with(raj.act.1,  termco(dialogue, person, ml))
colcomb2class(dat1, list(cats = c("cat1", "cat2")))

## `question_type` example
dat2 <- question_type(DATA.SPLIT$state, DATA.SPLIT$person)
combs <- list(
    `wh/how` = c("what", "how"), 
    oth = c("shall", "implied_do/does/did")
)
colcomb2class(dat2, combs)

## `pos_by` example
dat3 <- with(DATA, pos_by(state, list(adult, sex)))
colcomb2class(dat3, qcv(DT, EX, FW))


## data.frame example
dat4 <- data.frame(X=LETTERS[1:5], matrix(sample(0:5, 20, TRUE), ncol = 4))
colcomb2class(dat4, list(new = c("X1", "X4")))

## End(Not run)

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