multichoice_factor: create factors for multiple choice variables

In aghaynes/redcaptools: Tools for exporting and working with REDCap data

create factors for multiple choice variables

Description

Converts the numeric values returned from REDCap to factors (with levels Yes/No). This function also applies labels to the variable itself, based on the option label.

Usage

multichoice_factor(
  data,
  metadata,
  replace = FALSE,
  append = "_factor",
  include_vlabel = FALSE,
  vlabel_sep = ": "
)

Arguments

data	the data.frame to modify
metadata	metadata/datadictionary
replace	whether to overwrite the existing data .
append	text to append to the variable name if not overwriting
include_vlabel	logical indicating whether to include the variable label before the value label
vlabel_sep	text to use for separating vlabel and label

Value

input data.frame with additional factor variables.

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