sdcMicro (version 5.6.1)

varToFactor: Change the a keyVariable of an object of class sdcMicroObj-class from Numeric to Factor or from Factor to Numeric

Description

Change the scale of a variable

Usage

varToFactor(obj, var)
varToNumeric(obj, var)

Value

the modified sdcMicroObj-class

Arguments

obj

object of class sdcMicroObj-class

var

name of the keyVariable to change

Examples

## for objects of class sdcMicro:
data(testdata2)
sdc <- createSdcObj(testdata2,
  keyVars=c('urbrur','roof','walls','water','electcon','relat','sex'),
  numVars=c('expend','income','savings'), w='sampling_weight')
sdc <- varToFactor(sdc, var="urbrur")