Recode a vector.

This utility function will recode values from an original character or factor vector with new values.

recode(x, from, to, to.class = NULL)

Arguments

x

the vector whose values will be recoded.

from

the old values in x to be recoded.

to

the new values.

to.class

an 'as.' function representing the desired vector type (i.e. as.character, as.numeric, as.logical, as.numeric).

Value

a vector with same length of x with recoded values.

Examples

test <- letters[sample(5, 10, replace=TRUE)]
recode(test, from=letters[1:5], to=paste('Letter', letters[1:5]))
#>  [1] "Letter c" "Letter d" "Letter c" "Letter e" "Letter d" "Letter e"
#>  [7] "Letter d" "Letter e" "Letter a" "Letter c"