transformVar {iNZightTools}

R Documentation

Transform data of a numeric variable

Description

Transform the values of a numeric variable by applying a mathematical function

Usage

transformVar(
  .data,
  var,
  transformation,
  name = sprintf("%s.%s", transformation, var)
)

Arguments

.data	a dataframe with the variables to transform
var	a character of the numeric variable in .data to transform
transformation	a name of a valid mathematical function that can be applied to numeric values, eg. "log", "exp", "sqrt". For squaring, use "square"; for inverting, use "reciprocal"
name	the name of the new variable

Value

the original dataframe containing a new column of the transformed variable with tidyverse code attached

Author(s)

Owen Jin

See Also

code

Examples

Run examples

transformed <- transformVar(iris, var = "Petal.Length",
    transformation = "log")
cat(code(transformed))
head(transformed)

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