pedalfast_factor {pedalfast.data}

PEDALFAST factor

Description

A flavor of the base function factor but aimed to use specific default values for levels and labels based on the information in the pedalfast_metadata object.

Usage

pedalfast_factor(x, variable, label_with_level = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

a vector of data

variable

character string identifying the variable name in pedalfast_metadata defining the levels and labels for the factor.

label_with_level

(default to FALSE) labels will include the integer value. See examples.

...

not currently used.

Value

An object of class factor

References

Bennett TD, Dixon RR, Kartchner C, DeWitt PE, Sierra Y, Ladell D, Kempe A, Runyan DK, Dean JM, Keenan HT. Functional Status Scale in Children With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2016 Dec;17(12):1147-1156. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000934. PMID: 27753754; PMCID: PMC5138132.

Pollack MM, Holubkov R, Funai T, et al. Pediatric intensive care outcomes: development of new morbidities during pediatric critical care. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2014;15(9):821-827. doi:10.1097/PCC.0000000000000250

Examples

data(pedalfast, pedalfast_metadata, package = "pedalfast.data")

# The Motor GCS in the emergency department is reported as an integer value.
str(pedalfast$gcsmotored)

# Each integer value a specific meaning
pedalfast_metadata[grepl("gcsmotored", pedalfast_metadata$variable), ]

# Creating the factor in base R

pedalfast_factor(x = c(1, 3, 2), variable = "gcsmotored")
pedalfast_factor(x = c(1, 3, 2), variable = "gcsmotored", label_with_level = TRUE)