levelmap: Levelmap
In thomasgstewart/tgsify: A Collection of R Functions

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

Creates character/categorical variable by mapping old values to new categories

1	levelmap(x, map, type = "c")

`x`	A vector whose values will be mapped to new categories
`map`	A data.frame/data.table where the first variable is the old values and the second column is the new categories
`type`	Either "c" for character or "f" for factor. The parameter determines the type of vector that is returned.

The function perpetuates the input label attribute to the output.

set.seed(234)
xm <- data.frame(
    A = 0:1
  , B = c("The zero category","The one category")
  , stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
x <- rbinom(50, 1, .4)
levelmap(x, xm)
levelmap(x, xm, type = "f")