labelled_to_continuous: Labelled vectors to continuous

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Labelled vectors to continuous

Description

Convert a vector to the numeric version of its value labels

Usage

labelled_to_continuous(x)

Arguments

x	an atomic numeric vector with the attribute "labels"

Details

labelled_to_continuous first converts the values x to their associated labels. Then it returns as.numeric(x). The intended use case of this is when a continuos measure was ingested as a categorical data type and the labels contain the desired values (wrong recodes).

Value

a numeric vector

Author(s)

Sven Halvorson ([e-mail])

Examples

labelled_vector = 1:4
expss::var_lab(labelled_vector) = 'How many times have you read Enuma Elish?'
expss::val_lab(labelled_vector) = c(
  'Prefer not to answer' = 1,
  '0' = 2,
  '1' = 3,
  '2' = 4
)
labelled_to_continuous(labelled_vector)

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