networkreporting (version 0.1.1)

topcode.data: topcode a group of variables

Description

this function uses topcode.var to topcode a set of variables. it's useful for topcoding a whole set of aggregated relational data ("how many X are you connected to?") questions in the same way.

Usage

topcode.data(survey.data, vars, max, to.na = NULL, ignore = NA)

Arguments

survey.data

the dataset with the survey responses

vars

a vector with the names or indices of the columns in the dataframe that are to be topcoded

max

the maximum value; all values > max are recoded to max

to.na

a vector of values to recode to NA (this happens before topcoding)

ignore

a vector of values to leave unchanged

Value

the topcoded vector

Examples

## Not run: 
#    data(hh.survey) # example data included with the package
#    example.survey <- topcode.data(example.survey,
#                                   vars=known.popn.vars,
#                                   max=30)
# ## End(Not run)