rescale_political_interest: Rescale level of political interest

In antaldaniel/surveyreader: Data cleaning and integration for survey files

Description

Create a uniform variable from four categories such as "Not at all interested in politics", "Slightly interested in politics", "Moderately interested in politics", "Strongly interested in politics". This is a wrapper function around the rescale_categories function.

Usage

rescale_political_interest(column,
  from = c("Not at all interested in politics",
  "Slightly interested in politics", "Moderately interested in politics",
  "Strongly interested in politics"), to = NULL, na_labels = c("DK"),
  exact_from = TRUE, return_class = "factor", underscore = TRUE)

Arguments

column	A column from a survey data with a four-level scale.
from	Defaults to c("Not at all interested in politics", "Slightly interested in politics", "Moderately interested in politics", "Strongly interested in politics").
to	Defaults to NULL which gives a shorthened version of the labels if the return_class is "character" or "factor" and returns c(0,1,2,3) if it is "numeric".
na_labels	Defaults to c("DK").
exact_from	Deafults to TRUE. If FALSE you can use the partial matching, but beware that in this case, "twenty" will be replaced by
return_class	Default is "factor", alternatives "character" or "numeric".
underscore	Defaults to TRUE in which case factor names or character strings contain underscore_between_words. This is a better approach for further programming, but you can choose FALSE for nicer printing results. See examples.

Examples

rescale_political_interest (c("Not at all interested in politics",
                             "Slightly interested in politics",
                             "DK",
                             "Moderately interested in politics",
                             "Strongly interested in politics"),
                           return_class = "numeric")

rescale_political_interest (c("Not at all interested in politics",
                             "Slightly interested in politics",
                             "DK",
                             "Moderately interested in politics",
                             "Strongly interested in politics"),
                             underscore = FALSE)

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