Converts REDCap choices to factor levels and stores in labels attribute — format_redcap_factor • REDCapCAST

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] 1 3 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 2 1 3 2 2 3 1 2 1 1
#> attr(,"labels")
#> First. second  THIRD 
#>    "1"    "2"    "3" 
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "labelled"