val_labs_vec {labelr}

Replace a Variable's Values with Its Value Labels and Return as a Vector

Description

Select a single, value-labeled data.frame column (variable), replace each of its values with the corresponding value labels, and return the result as a vector.

Usage

val_labs_vec(data, var)

vlv(data, var)

Arguments

data

a data.frame.

var

the unquoted name of the column (variable) whose values will be converted to the associated value labels in the returned vector.

Details

Note 1: vlv is a compact alias for val_labs_vec: they do the same thing, and the former is easier to type.

Note 2: This command is intended exclusively for interactive use. In particular, the var argument must be the literal name of a single variable (column) found in the supplied data.frame and may NOT be, e.g., the name of a character vector that contains the variable (column name) of interest.

val_labs_vec works with other labelr functions to facilitate creation, modification, accessing, use, and destruction of variable-specific value labels. This functionality is equivalent to calling use_val_labs with a single variable passed to the vars argument, except that the latter returns the entire data.frame with that variable modified, while val_labs_vec returns only that single modified variable itself (as a vector)

Value

A vector containing the original data.frame variable (var), after its values have been converted to their corresponding value labels.

Examples

df <- mtcars
# add value labels
df <- add_val_labs(
  data = df,
  var = "am",
  vals = c(0, 1),
  labs = c("automatic", "manual")
)

am_labs <- val_labs_vec(df, am)

length(df$am)

class(df$am)

df$am

length(am_labs)

class(am_labs)

am_labs