furniture (version 1.2.2)

washer: Wash Your Data

Description

Washes the data by replacing values with either NA's or other values set by the user. Useful for replacing values such as 777's or 999's that represent missing values in survey research. Can also perform many useful functions on factors (e.g., removing a level, replacing a level, etc.)

Usage

washer(x, ..., value = NA)

Arguments

x

the variable to have values adjusted

...

the values in the variable that are to be replaced by either NA's or the value set by the user. Can be a function (or multiple functions) to specify values to change (e.g., is.nan(), is.na()).

value

(optional) if specified, the values in ... will be replaced by this value (must be a single value)

Value

A table with the number of observations, means/frequencies and standard deviations/percentages is returned. The object is a table1 class object with a print method. Can be printed in LaTex form.

Examples

x = c(1:20, NA, NaN)
washer(x, 9, 10)
washer(x, 9, 10, value=0)
washer(x, 1:10)
washer(x, is.na, is.nan, value=0)
washer(x, is.na, is.nan, 1:3, value=0)