varToFactor function

Change the a keyVariable of an object of class sdcMicroObj-class from Numeric to Factor or from Factor to Numeric

Change the scale of a variable methods

varToFactor(obj, var)

varToNumeric(obj, var)

Arguments

• obj: object of class sdcMicroObj-class
• var: name of the keyVariable to change

Returns

the modified sdcMicroObj-class

Examples

## for objects of class sdcMicro:
data(testdata2)
sdc <- createSdcObj(testdata2,
  keyVars=c('urbrur','roof','walls','water','electcon','relat','sex'),
  numVars=c('expend','income','savings'), w='sampling_weight')
sdc <- varToFactor(sdc, var="urbrur")