buildfreqtable {rsnell}

Convert raw data to count data for use in snell function

Description

This function will be used to convert the raw data from the database to count data that can be passed into the snell function.

Usage

buildfreqtable(data, trait, subgroup, order)

Arguments

data

A data frame containing the raw data

trait

A character string specifying the trait to be analyzed

subgroup

A character string specifying the column containing the grouping variable

order

A character vector specifying the order in which the categories of the trait should be placed

Details

This function groups the data by the specified subgroup and trait, and counts the occurrences for each combination. It then reshapes the data into a frequency table.

Value

A frequency table with the specified subgroup as the rownames, the scores of the specified trait as column names, and count as values

Examples

library(dplyr)
mydata <- data.frame("Groups" = rep(c("A", "B", "C", "D"), 10),
                    "Scores" = round(runif(40, 0, 5)))
buildfreqtable(data = mydata, trait = "Scores", subgroup = "Groups")