Check for a specific value — checkValue • eatGADS

Function to look for occurrences of a specific value in a GADSdat.

Usage

checkValue(GADSdat, value, vars = namesGADS(GADSdat))

Arguments

GADSdat: GADSdat object imported via eatGADS.
value: Single string indicating how missing labels are commonly named in the value labels.
vars: Character vector with the variable names to which checkValue should be applied.

Value

A named integer.

Details

The function checks occurrences of a specific value in a set of variables (default: all variables) in the GADSdat and outputs a vector containing the count of occurrences for all variables in which the value occurs. It explicitly supports checking for NA.

Examples

# for all variables in the data
checkValue(pisa, value = 99)
#>   idstud idschool 
#>        1        1 

# only for specific variables in the data
checkValue(pisa, vars = c("idschool", "g8g9"), value = 99)
#> idschool 
#>        1