scalestrip: Strips Likert scale point labels, returns numeric or ordinal...

In brendan-r/NPS: Convenience Functions and Tests for Working With the Net Promoter Score (NPS)

Description

Survey systems export responses to Likhert scales with the scale labels on, meaning that R as factors or text as opposed to numeric data. This function takes labelled scales and returns unlabelled numeric data (by default), or an unlabelled ordered factor (if requested).

Usage

scalestrip(x, ordinal = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a vector, matrix, or data.frame, containing Likert data labelled in the format "Integer - some text", e.g. "10 - Extremely Likely"
ordinal	logical (TRUE\codeFALSE). Should the data returned be an ordered factor? Otherwise the data returned is numeric. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

Unlabelled numeric data (by defualt), or an unlabelled ordered factor (if requested).

Author(s)

Brendan Rocks [e-mail]

brendan-r/NPS documentation built on May 13, 2019, 5:08 a.m.