Functions to preprocess determinant structures

These functions are used in conjunction with the determinantStructure family of funtions to conveniently work with determinant structures.

detStructAddVarLabels(determinantStructure,
                      varLabelDf,
                      varNameCol = "varNames.cln",
                      leftAnchorCol = "leftAnchors",
                      rightAnchorCol = "rightAnchors",
                      subQuestionCol = "subQuestions",
                      questionTextCol = "questionText")

detStructAddVarNames(determinantStructure, names)

detStructComputeProducts(determinantStructure, dat, append = TRUE)

detStructComputeScales(determinantStructure, dat, append = TRUE, separator = "_")

Arguments

determinantStructure	The determinantStructure object.
varLabelDf	The variable label dataframe as generated by processLSvarLabels. It is also possible to specify 'homemade' dataframe, in which case the column names have to specified (see the next arguments).
varNameCol	The name of the column of the varLabelDf that contains the variable name. Only needs to be changed from the default value if varLabelDf is not a dataframe as produced by processLSvarLabels.
leftAnchorCol	The name of the column of the varLabelDf that contains the left anchor. Only needs to be changed from the default value if varLabelDf is not a dataframe as produced by processLSvarLabels.
rightAnchorCol	The name of the column of the varLabelDf that contains the right anchor. Only needs to be changed from the default value if varLabelDf is not a dataframe as produced by processLSvarLabels.
subQuestionCol	The name of the column of the varLabelDf that contains the subquestion. Only needs to be changed from the default value if varLabelDf is not a dataframe as produced by processLSvarLabels.
questionTextCol	The name of the column of the varLabelDf that contains the question text. Only needs to be changed from the default value if varLabelDf is not a dataframe as produced by processLSvarLabels.
names	A character vector with the variable names. These are matched against the regular expressions as specified in the determinantStructure object, and any matches will be stored in the determinantStructure object.
dat	The dataframe containing the data; the variables names specified in names (when calling detStructAddVarNames) must be present in this dataframe.
append	Whether to only return the products or scales, or whether to append these to the dataframe and return the entire dataframe.
separator	The separator to use when constructing the scale variables names.

Details

This family of functions will be explained more in detail in a forthcoming paper.

Value

detStructAddVarLabels and detStructAddVarNames just change the determinantStructure object; detStructComputeProducts and detStructComputeScales return either the dataframe with the new variables appended (if append = TRUE) or just a dataframe with the new variables (if append = FALSE).

References

(Forthcoming)

See also

determinantStructure, determinantVar, subdeterminants, subdeterminantProducts, detStructCIBER

Examples

### Generate a silly determinant structure
detStruct <- determinantStructure('This makes no sense',
                                  list('mpg',
                                       behaviorRegEx = 'mpg'),
                                  determinantVar("Proximal determinant",
                                                 "t",
                                                 determinantVar("Determinant",
                                                                "p",
                                                                subdeterminants("Subdeterminants",
                                                                                "a"))));

### Add the variable names
detStructAddVarNames(detStruct, names(mtcars));
#> Error in detStructAddVarNames(detStruct, names(mtcars)): attempt to apply non-function

### Add the determinant scale variable to the dataframe
mtcarsPlus <- detStructComputeScales(detStruct, mtcars);
#> Error in detStructComputeScales(detStruct, mtcars): The first argument must be a determint structure object!

### Show its presence
names(mtcarsPlus);
#> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos): object 'mtcarsPlus' not found
mean(mtcarsPlus$mpg_Determinant);
#> Error in mean(mtcarsPlus$mpg_Determinant): object 'mtcarsPlus' not found