Missing Value Formatting

Takes a numeric vector and replaces all missing codes with NA and returns a factor if the variable is categorical or a numeric variable if it's numeric.

Usage

formatNA(y, type = c("cat", "cont"), codes = c("", "Unk", "N/A"))

Arguments

y

a vector.

type

whether the variable is "cat" (categorical) or "cont" (continuous). Defaults to "cat".

codes

vector of missing codes to replace with NA

Value

A categorical or numerical vector with all missing formatted as NA.

Author

Aline Talhouk, Derek Chiu

Examples

y <- c(1:10, "Unk", 12)
formatNA(y)
#>  [1] 1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   <NA> 12  
#> Levels: 1 10 12 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9