recode function

recodes item responses

Recodes item responses as specified by original and modified

recode(vec, original, modified)

Arguments

• vec: a vector of item responses to be recoded
• original: original item response categories, e.g., c(0,1,2,3)
• modified: modified item response categories, e.g., c(1,2,3,4)

Details

vec, original, and modified must be of the same mode. original and modified must be of the same length.

Returns

Returns a vector of the same length and mode as vec with recoded values.

Author(s)

Seung W. Choi choi.phd@gmail.com

Examples

x <- c(0,1,2,3,4,0,1,2,3,4)
y <- c(0,1,2,3,4)
z <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
recode(x,y,z)
##returns c(1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5)