assimilateValLabels {eatGADS}

Assimilate value labels.

Description

Assimilate all value labels of multiple variables as part of a GADSdat or all_GADSdat object.

Usage

assimilateValLabels(GADSdat, varNames, lookup = NULL)

Arguments

GADSdat

GADSdat object imported via eatGADS.

varNames

Character string of a variable name.

lookup

Look up data.frame.

Details

Assimilation can be performed using all existing value labels or a look up table containing at least all existing value labels. Missing codes are reused based on the meta data of the first variable in varNames.

Value

Returns the GADSdat object with changed meta data and recoded values.

Examples

# Example data set
facs_df <- data.frame(id = 1:3, fac1 = c("Eng", "Aus", "Ger"),
                      fac2 = c("Ger", "Franz", "Ita"),
                      fac3 = c("Kor", "Chi", "Alg"),
                      stringsAsFactors = TRUE)
facs_gads <- import_DF(facs_df)

assimilateValLabels(facs_gads, varNames = paste0("fac", 1:3))