renameCodebook: A command to match variable names in a given data set with...

In kthorstmann/horst: Functions for the processing of questionnaire data

Description

A data set contains variable names, which are usually short. The more meaningful variable names are stored in a codebook, e. g. in Excel. This function allows matching and replacing/renaming the variable names in the data set with the variable names from the codebook.

Usage

renameCodebook(data, codebook, code.old.vars = "varname",
  code.new.vars = "new.varname")

Arguments

data	The data frame.
codebook	The codebook which must be in the current working directory as a data frame
code.old.vars	The column in the codebook, in which the original (short) variable names are stored (default is to varname, as in Unipark)
code.new.vars	The column in the codebook, in which the new (usually longer, meaningful) variable names are stored (default is to new.varname, as in Unipark)

Details

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Value

Returns the original data set with names replaced from the Codebook. All names in the data set that do not appear in the Codebook remain unchanged.

See Also

matchItems

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