aggregate_pers {manifestoR}

Aggregate category percentages in groups

Description

aggregate_pers is a general function to aggregate percentage variables by creating a new variable holding the sum. If a variable with the name for the aggregate already exists and if it is part of the 'overwrite' parameter, it is overwritten.

Usage

aggregate_pers(
  data,
  groups = v5_v4_aggregation_relations(),
  na.rm = FALSE,
  keep = FALSE,
  overwrite = names(groups),
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

data

dataset to use in aggregation

groups

(named) list of variable name vectors to aggregate to a new one (as given in the name); see default value for an example of the format

na.rm

passed on to sum

keep

keep variables that were aggregated in result?

overwrite

Names of the variables that are allowed to be overwritten by aggregate. Defaults to all aggregate variable names.

verbose

show messages in case of possibly problematic side effects

See Also

aggregate_pers_cee