Decode and translate features and categories — z22_decode • z22

Replace category codes with their labels.

Usage

z22_decode(codes, feature, lang = c("english", "german"))

Arguments

codes: A vector of character codes, possibly prefixed with "cat_".
feature: A grid feature that the category codes belong to.
lang: Specifies the language of the output description. Can be either "english" (default) or "german". Note that the English descriptions are only ad-hoc translations based off the German originals.

Value

.data with category codes decoded to labels.

Examples

# retrieves a the translation of cat codes directly
z22_decode(1, "marital_status")
#> [1] "Single"

# recycles codes
z22_decode(c(1, 1, 1), "marital_status")
#> [1] "Single" "Single" "Single"

# undefined codes are returned as NA
z22_decode(c(1, 2, 3), feature = "sex")
#> [1] "Male"   "Female" NA      

# special case: cat_* strings
z22_decode("cat_2", feature = "sex")
#> [1] "Female"