decode_ethnicity: Convert Ethnicity Codes to a Single Label
In jamisoncrawford/panthr: Streamlining Preprocessing Tasks with GSU Data

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decode_ethnicity formats the ETHNIC_CODES field by evaluating a scalar or vector of values with ethnic codes and missing values and converting them to a single label. Missing values are converted to Not Reported.

1	decode_ethnicity(code)

code

A scalar or vector of length n and either class character or numeric that contain an ethnicity code, i.e. 1 or 2.

Output may be made categorical using function factor or as.factor. This function also allows for easily tallying counts using, e.g., function table.

Values containing ethnicity codes other than 1 or 2 are coerced to NA (missing) rather than converted to Not Reported. In these instances, a warning message is thrown. In instances where race codes are detected, evaluation halts and an error message is thrown.

A scalar or vector of values of length n and class character containing a single label describing the ethnicity code. NULL values are converted into the character string: Not Reported.

Jamison R. Crawford, Institutional Research Associate, Georgia State University

grepl, table, paste, gsub

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