simple_relevel: Relevel in correspondence to another factor

In oucru-biostats/C306: Collection of useful R codes for data analysis from the Biostatistics group at OUCRU

Relevel in correspondence to another factor

Description

Function to relevel a variable in accordance to a another variable of class "factor".

Usage

simple_relevel(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
simple_relevel(data, ..., by)

## Default S3 method:
simple_relevel(x, by, map, value = c("unsorted", "sorted", "levels"))

Arguments

x	a vector that will be relevelled
...	Unquoted variable names that will be relevelled
data	A data.frame
by	a vector that the relevelling process will base on
map	a list that links by to x in the form of list(by.1 = c(x1.1, x1.2...), by.2 = c(x2.1, x2.2...)) or a data.frame with two columns "from" and "to" serving the same purpose.
value	a string: whether to return - "levels": new levels only - "unsorted" (default): an unsorted, relevelled factor - "sorted": a sorted, relevelled factor

Value

An object of the same class as the input

A factor or a numeric vector of order

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