Will ?recode in the car package do what you want? x <- 1:4 recode(x, "1='4';2='3' ;3='2'; 4='1'")
--- Alexis Delevett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am using R to process some community survey data. > Several item responses are recorded via a 7-point > Likert-Scale. As I have coded the responses, 1 > represents high agreement, and 7 high disagreement. > This of course impacts the coefficients in a linear > regression (of example agreement to self-perception > measures on housing satisfaction). For some > purposes, in order to make the coefficients more > accessible to the reader, I would like to invert the > item values, i.e. to arrive at 1 for high > disagreement, and 7 for high agreement (such that > the linear regression would express something like > "the higher the agreement on A, the greater the B). > > Is there an already existing function for this, or > do I use a custom replace loop in R? > > Thank you, Alexis > > > --------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
