EdSurvey (version 2.2.3)

updatePlausibleValue: Update Plausible Value Variable Names

Description

Changes the name used to refer to a set of plausible values from oldVar to newVar in an edsurvey.data.frame, a light.edsurvey.data.frame, or an edsurvey.data.frame.list.

Usage

updatePlausibleValue(oldVar, newVar, data)

Arguments

oldVar

a character value indicating the existing name of the variable

newVar

a character value indicating the new name of the variable

data

an edsurvey.data.frame, a light.edsurvey.data.frame, or an edsurvey.data.frame.list

Value

an object of the same class as the data argument, with the name of the plausible value updated from oldVar to newVar

See Also

getPlausibleValue and showPlausibleValues

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# read in the example data (generated, not real student data)
sdf <- readNAEP(system.file("extdata/data", "M36NT2PM.dat", package="NAEPprimer"))

# get the PVs before
showPlausibleValues(sdf)
sdf2 <- updatePlausibleValue("composite", "overall", sdf)
showPlausibleValues(sdf2)
lm1 <- lm.sdf(overall ~ b017451, data=sdf2)
summary(lm1)
# }