flip: Flip vector names and values

In AEBilgrau/Bmisc: Biostatistical miscellaneous functions

Description

Simply flips or switches values and names of named vectors. This is e.g. useful when named character vectors are used a mapping.

Usage

flip(x, convert = TRUE)

Arguments

x	A named vector.
convert	logical. If TRUE, an attempt will be made to coerce the flipped values into a numeric.

Value

A named character vector.

Author(s)

Anders Ellern Bilgrau

Examples

x <- structure(1:5, names = LETTERS[1:5])
x
flip(x)
flip(flip(x))


y <- structure(c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"), 
   names = c("albert", "bob", "charlie", "dennis", "eddie", "frank", "hugo"))
y["hugo"]
flip(y)["a"]

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