On 04-Aug-07 16:42:23, John Kane wrote: > Will ?recode in the car package do what you want? > x <- 1:4 > recode(x, "1='4';2='3' ;3='2'; 4='1'")
Is thre a problem with just using New <- (8 - Old) ?? Ted. > --- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 04-Aug-07 Time: 18:06:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.
