long_to_condensed: Long to condensed

In softloud/sysrevdata: Methods for designing multifunctional, machine readable systematic review and map databases

Long to condensed

Description

Convert from long format to long format based on the prefix for each set of linked values across multiple columns. Two-step process goes from long to wide and then from wide to condensed.

Usage

long_to_condensed(
  data,
  columns,
  value_sep = ";",
  name_sep = "_",
  readable = TRUE
)

Arguments

data	A dataframe containing rows of systematic review data in long format.
columns	A set of columns containing coded data from within a dataframe.
value_sep	A character used to separate values within the data. The default is set to ';'.
name_sep	A character used to separate terms in the newly generated column names within the data. The default is set to '_' (i.e. snake_case).
readable	Logical argument (TRUE or FALSE) specifying whether the value separator should be followed by a space to improve readability (e.g. '; ' instead of ';'). The default is set to 'readable = TRUE'.

Value

A dataframe in 'condensed' format.

Examples

## Not run: 
condensed <- long_to_condensed(data, columns, readable = TRUE)
condensed;

## End(Not run)

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