ordinal: create a new ordinal variable

In mabafaba/categorical: Representing and Manipulating categorical data in R

Description

create a new ordinal variable

Usage

ordinal(x, levels = unique(unlist(x)), ranks = 1:length(levels), ...)

Arguments

x	a vector of to be used as values for the ordinal vector. These should be characters for most use cases (but can be other types)
levels	vector of of possible values for x; similar to factor levels
ranks	a vector of numeric ranks corresponding to each level.
...	named vectors with alternative values corresponding to 'levels'. Must each have the same length as levels. Can be accessed with alternate. These "external" alternatives are open to user defined alternatives, for example labels in multiple languages.

mabafaba/categorical documentation built on May 3, 2020, 9 p.m.