amcat.hierarchy.cats: Add categories (ancestors) to a codebook 'hierarchy'

In amcat/amcat-r: R bindings for the AmCAT API

Description

Adds one or more categories to codebook codes. Suppose that you have a hierarchy like

Usage

amcat.hierarchy.cats(hierarchy, maxdepth = 2)

Arguments

hierarchy	the hierarchy data frame from amcat.gethierarchy
maxdepth	the maxium number of ancestors per code

Details

code, parent issue, NA economy, issue unemployment, economy environment, issue

The first category or 'root' for all objects will be 'issue'. The second category would be 'economy' for economy and unemployment, and 'environment' for environment. For 'issue', the second category would simply be issue:

code, parent, cat1, cat2 issue, NA, issue, issue economy, issue, issue, economy unemployment, economy, issue, economy environment, issue, issue, environment #'

Value

The hierarchy data frame with a column added for each code

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