umx_strings2numeric: A wrapper to map columns of strings to numeric.

In umx: Structural Equation Modeling and Twin Modeling in R

A wrapper to map columns of strings to numeric.

Description

If you give one column name, the column is converted from string to numeric, and returned as a vector. If multiple column names are given (or cols is not set), each is converted, and an updated data.frame returned.

Usage

umx_strings2numeric(df, cols = NA, mapStrings = NULL)

Arguments

df	The df
cols	(optional) list of columns (default = use all)
mapStrings	legal strings which will be mapped in order to numbers.

Value

• df

See Also

Other Data Functions: noNAs(), prolific_anonymize(), prolific_check_ID(), prolific_read_demog(), umx, umxFactor(), umxHetCor(), umx_as_numeric(), umx_cont_2_quantiles(), umx_lower2full(), umx_make_MR_data(), umx_make_TwinData(), umx_make_fake_data(), umx_make_raw_from_cov(), umx_merge_randomized_columns(), umx_polychoric(), umx_polypairwise(), umx_polytriowise(), umx_read_lower(), umx_rename(), umx_reorder(), umx_score_scale(), umx_select_valid(), umx_stack()

Examples

tmp = data.frame(x=letters)
umx_strings2numeric(tmp, mapStrings = letters)
umx_strings2numeric(tmp, cols= "x", mapStrings = letters)

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