translateSPSS2R (version 1.0.0)

xpssFilter: Creates a FILTER subset

Description

R implementation of the SPSS FILTER argument.

Usage

xpssFilter(x,variable = NULL, filtervalue = 1)

Arguments

x

a (non-empty) data.frame or input data of class "xpssFrame".

variable

atomic character with the name of the variable.

filtervalue

atomic character or atomic numeric which contains the filtervalue.

Value

Output is a subset of the actual dataset under the predetermined condition of the filtervalue.

Details

xpssFilter creates a subset of the actual dataset, without deleting the excluded variables, respectively without deleting the excluded values. After activating xpssFilter, only the subset will be used, the excluded data will be ignored for the following actions until xpssFilterOff terminates the filtering. As noted before those cases are not actually deleted and will be available after the filter is turned off. Important: All changes are used on the complete dataset, except for the function being an data exploring or data analyzing function

	Type of Function	Example Function
Dataset Usage		Data Management
xpssSelectIf	Uses thecomplete dataset
Data Modifing	xpssRecode	Uses the complete dataset
	Data Exploring	xpssDescriptives
Uses theworking dataset only		Data Analyzing
xpssRegression	Uses the working dataset only

See Also

Related Functions xpssDoIf xpssFilterOff xpssSample xpssSelectIf xpssTemporary

Examples

data(fromXPSS)

fromXPSS <- xpssFilter(x=fromXPSS, variable = "V3", filtervalue=1)

xpssDescriptives(x=fromXPSS, variables = "V6")

xpssFilterOff(x=fromXPSS)