REDCapCAST/reference/format_redcap_factor.md

Converts REDCap choices to factor levels and stores in labels attribute

Applying as_factor to the data.frame or variable, will coerce to a factor.

Usage

format_redcap_factor(data, meta)

Arguments

• data:

  vector

• meta:

  vector of REDCap choices

Value

vector of class "labelled" with a "labels" attribute

Examples

format_redcap_factor(sample(1:3, 20, TRUE), "1, First. | 2, second | 3, THIRD")
#>  [1] 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 1
#> attr(,"labels")
#> First. second  THIRD 
#>    "1"    "2"    "3" 
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "labelled"