Combine levels — rbin_factor

Manually combine levels of categorical data.

rbin_factor_combine(data, var, new_var, new_name)

Arguments

data	A `data.frame` or `tibble`.
var	An object of class `factor`.
new_var	A character vector; it should include the names of the levels to be combined.
new_name	Name of the combined level.

Value

A tibble.

Examples

upper <- c("secondary", "tertiary")
out <- rbin_factor_combine(mbank, education, upper, "upper")
table(out$education)
#> 
#>   upper unknown primary 
#>    3651     179     691 

out <- rbin_factor_combine(mbank, education, c("secondary", "tertiary"), "upper")
table(out$education)
#> 
#>   upper unknown primary 
#>    3651     179     691