make_new_var: Given a melted data frame and a definition for the new...

In peterhurford/surveytools: Surveytools is a collection of R functions that, together, create a lightweight and modern workflow for analyzing survey data.

Description

Given a melted data frame and a definition for the new variable, create that new variable added onto the melted data frame.

Usage

make_new_var(new_var_name, definition, data = get_data())

Arguments

new_var_name	character. The desired name of the new variable.
definition	numeric or character. The values for the new variable.
data.	The data to which the new variable will be added. This is assumed to be a three column melted dataframe, using reshape2 <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reshape2/index.html>. The first column should contain IDs, the second column should contain variable names, and the third column should contain variable values.

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