Alexis Delevett <adelevet <at> yahoo.com> writes: > 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?
It's a rarely used function called '-' x=c(1,7,3,4) y=8-x y ______________________________________________ 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.
