If a data frame is passed, then code translation will be applied directly to the data frame.
In that case the return argument is the code-translated data frame.
nchar
Applies only when data is defined. Code translations can be very long.
Truncate the length by setting nchar (default = 32).
mincategories
The minimum number of categories needed for code translations to be applied to the data (default=2).
details
If TRUE then all available table translation information is displayed (default=FALSE).
dxa
If TRUE then the 2005-2006 DXA translation table will be used (default=FALSE).
Value
The code translation table (or translated data frame when data is defined).
Details
Code translation tables are retrieved via webscraping using rvest.
Many of the NHANES data tables have encoded values. E.g. 1 = 'Male', 2 = 'Female'.
Thus it is often helpful to view the code translations and perhaps insert the translated values
in a data frame. Note that Hmisc supports "labelled" fields. When a translation is applied directly
to a column in a data frame, the column class is first converted to 'factor' and then the coded
values are replaced with the code translations.
# NOT RUN {nhanesTranslate('DEMO_B', c('DMDBORN','DMDCITZN'))
nhanesTranslate('BPX_F', 'BPACSZ', details=TRUE)
# }# NOT RUN {nhanesTranslate('BPX_F', 'BPACSZ', data=nhanes('BPX_F'))
# }