wrap.generate: Generate columns

In michaelkardas/behavioralwrappers: Wrappers and other functions for the behavioral sciences

Description

Searches the data frame for pairs of columns whose names are identical except for specific strings that you've embedded within them–such as "T1" versus "T2" or "Participant1" versus "Participant2–and then generates new columns by computing sums, differences, or means between pairs of corresponding columns.

Usage

wrap.generate(df, string1, string2, operation)

Arguments

df	The data frame
string1, string2	Strings embedded within the names of corresponding columns
operation	String to specify the operation: must be "sum", "difference", or "mean"

Examples

## Computing differences between T1 responses and T2 responses
wrap.generate(df = bdata, string1 = "T1", string2 = "T2", operation = "difference")

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