formatNA: Missing Value Formatting

In TalhoukLab/biostatUtil: Utility Functions Used in Biostatistics Projects

Missing Value Formatting

Description

Takes a numeric vector and replaces all missing codes with NA and returns a factor if the variable is categorical or a numeric variable if it's numeric.

Usage

formatNA(y, type = c("cat", "cont"), codes = c("", "Unk", "N/A"))

Arguments

y	a vector.
type	whether the variable is "cat" (categorical) or "cont" (continuous). Defaults to "cat".
codes	vector of missing codes to replace with NA

Value

A categorical or numerical vector with all missing formatted as NA.

Author(s)

Aline Talhouk, Derek Chiu

Examples

y <- c(1:10, "Unk", 12)
formatNA(y)

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