labelled_to_factor: Convert labelled numerics to factors
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labelled_to_factor

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Convert labelled numerics to factors

Description

Convert labelled numerics to factors

Usage

labelled_to_factor(x)

Arguments

`x`	an atomic numeric with the attribute "labels". Probably from `expss::val_lab`

Value

a factor

Note

This is a bit of a quirky solution because the integers underlying a factor are default set to 1 through the number of unique items. This means that without saving the original value labels

Author(s)

Sven Halvorson (svenpubmail@gmail.com)

Examples

city_labels = c(
  'Urruk' = 2,
  'Babylon' = 3,
  'Larsa' = 4,
  'Mari' = 5
)

set.seed(0)
cities = sample(2:5, size = 10, replace = TRUE)

expss::val_lab(cities) = city_labels

labelled_to_factor(cities)

# NOTE the difference:
as.numeric(labelled_to_factor(cities)) == cities

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