codebook: Get variable and value labels from a data set

In volker: High-Level Functions for Tabulating, Charting and Reporting Survey Data

Get variable and value labels from a data set

Description

Variable labels are extracted from their comment or label attribute. Variable values are extracted from factor levels, the labels attribute, numeric or boolean attributes.

Usage

codebook(data, cols, values = TRUE)

Arguments

data	A tibble.
cols	A tidy variable selections to filter specific columns.
values	Whether to output values (TRUE) or only items (FALSE)

Details

Value

A tibble with the columns:

• item_name: The column name.

• item_group: First part of the column name, up to an underscore.

• item_class: The last class value of an item (e.g. numeric, factor).

• item_label: The comment attribute of the column.

• value_name: In case a column has numeric attributes, the attribute names.

• value_label: In case a column has numeric attributes or T/F-attributes, the attribute values. In case a column has a levels attribute, the levels.

Examples

volker::codebook(volker::chatgpt)

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