explode_variable: Explode a single variable into multiple variables

In DanielGardiner/EpiFunc: Epidemiology Functions

Description

Explode a single variable into multiple variables

Usage

explode_variable(data, vars, break.value = ", ")

Arguments

data	a data.frame
vars	a character vector specifying the columns to 'explode' into multiple seperate columns
break.value	a character specifying the value to insert as a break between collapsed variables
id.col	a character specifying the column containing ID's

Value

a numeric vector containing age in years

Author(s)

Daniel Gardiner ([e-mail])

Examples

# define dummy data

data = data.frame(id = c("A", "B", "C", "D"),
                  activities = c("gym, cell 1, workshop a",
                                 "workshop a, cell 2, NA",
                                 "gym, NA, NA",
                                 "NA, NA, NA"))

# apply explode_variable function

explode_variable(data, vars = "activities")

DanielGardiner/EpiFunc documentation built on July 25, 2019, 10:53 p.m.