small_count_label: Label Small Counts Based on a Cutoff

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Label Small Counts Based on a Cutoff

Description

This function labels values in a vector as a replacement string if they are smaller than a specified cutoff. The input can be numeric, and the function will return either a modified version of the input vector with small values replaced by a given label, or it will keep the original values otherwise.

Usage

small_count_label(var, cutoff, replacement)

Arguments

var	A numeric vector. This represents the variable to be checked against the cutoff.
cutoff	A numeric value representing the threshold. Values in var smaller than this value will be replaced.
replacement	A string or a numeric value. If the value in var is smaller than the cutoff, this value will replace it. If a string is provided, it will replace the numeric values with the string. If a numeric value is provided, the replacement will also be numeric.

Value

A vector with values from var. Values smaller than the cutoff will be replaced by the replacement. If replacement is a string, the return type will be character, otherwise, it will remain numeric.

Author(s)

Nicolas Foss, Ed.D., MS

Examples

# Example usage of the small_count_label function
small_count_label(c(1, 5, 10), 5, "Below Cutoff")
small_count_label(c(1, 5, 10), 5, 0)

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