Hi!
I am working with a survey data set. Each question has three versions one for each language. Most of the data is output in binary or categorical variables. I can use coalesce for any of the integer variables but for any of the ordinal or categorical variables, it gives me an error because the data is logical/atomic.
This code works for the integer variable:
baseline2$gender <- coalesce(baseline2$gender_1,baseline2$gender_2,baseline2$gender_3)
This code doesn't work for the factor or logical variables:
baseline2$age <- coalesce(baseline2$age_1,baseline2$age_2,baseline2$age_3)
Error: Argument 3 must be a factor object, not a logical vector
I tried converting the entire data frame to numeric which really messes up the integer variables. I use code that convert from logical to character to numeric.
I am trying to use to following code to convert the logical to integer variables.
(to.replace <- names(which(sapply(baseline2, is.logical))))
for (var in to.replace) baseline2[, (var)== as.numeric(get(var))]
But it is returning this error:
Error in get(var) : object 'XXXXXXXXX' not found
Goal of what I am trying to do:
- Convert logical, factor to numeric variables. (already numbers but the variable type according to glimpse is lgl or fct.
- Coalesce 3 variables, removing NAs
- Can I use vctrs instead of coalesce? I read that is was supposed to help but haven't really seen much discussion of it being used for coalesce
Thank you!