num.recode {asremlPlus}

Recodes the unique values of a vector using the values in a new vector.

Description

Recodes the unique values of a variate using the value in position i of the new.values vector to replace the ith sorted unique values of x. The new levels do not have to be unique.

Usage

num.recode(x, new.values)

Arguments

x

The vector to be recoded.

new.values

A vector of length unique(x) containing values to use in the recoding.

Value

A vector.

Author(s)

Chris Brien

See Also

dae::fac.recast.

Examples

## set up a factor with labels
x <- rep(c(-42, -14, 14, 42), 4)
 
## recode x
b <- num.recode(x, c(0, 28, 56, 84))