REDCapCAST/man/fct2num.Rd

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% Please edit documentation in R/as_factor.R
\name{fct2num}
\alias{fct2num}
\title{Allows conversion of factor to numeric values preserving original levels}
\usage{
fct2num(data)
}
\arguments{
\item{data}{vector}
}
\value{
numeric vector
}
\description{
Allows conversion of factor to numeric values preserving original levels
}
\examples{
c(1, 4, 3, "A", 7, 8, 1) |>
  as_factor() |>
  fct2num()

structure(c(1, 2, 3, 2, 10, 9),
  labels = c(Unknown = 9, Refused = 10),
  class = "haven_labelled"
) |>
  as_factor() |>
  fct2num()

structure(c(1, 2, 3, 2, 10, 9),
  labels = c(Unknown = 9, Refused = 10),
  class = "labelled"
) |>
  as_factor() |>
  fct2num()

# Outlier with labels, but no class of origin, handled like numeric vector
# structure(c(1, 2, 3, 2, 10, 9),
#   labels = c(Unknown = 9, Refused = 10)
# ) |>
#   as_factor() |>
#   fct2num()

v <- sample(6:19, 20, TRUE) |> factor()
dput(v)
named_levels(v)
fct2num(v)
}