composite: Create a compositve variable

In dr-JT/datawrangling: Common functions for transforming, merging, binding, evaluating, and re-organizing dataframes

Create a compositve variable

Description

This function will create a composite variable

Usage

composite(
  x,
  variables,
  type = "mean",
  standardize = TRUE,
  name = NULL,
  missing.allowed = NULL
)

Arguments

x	dataframe
variables	c() of columns to average together to create the composite
type	What type of composite should be calculated?, i.e. mean or sum. (Default = "mean").
standardize	Logical. Do you want to calculate the composite based on standardize (z-score) values? (Default = FALSE)
name	Name of the new composite variable
missing.allowed	Criteria for how many variables can having missing values and still calculate a composite

Examples

composite(x, variable = c(), type = "mean", name = "name")

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