untangle: Disentangling a complex variable

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Description

We are occassionally faced with a data set variable that contains multiple pieces of information. Multiple pieces of information are stored in this variable. In this case these pieces are delineated by a comma or colon. As is, the variable is not useful. The *untangle* function can be used to create a set of dummy codes from this variable that will be more useful. This results in a new dataset with dummy codes

Usage

untangle(data, x, pattern, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

data	The name of the dataframe you
x	Column to untangle
pattern	Special characters that separate the variables in the column
verbose	TRUE or FALSE

Examples

untangle(data=test_data, x="charges", pattern="[,:]", verbose=TRUE)

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