wiggle {merTools}R Documentation

Assign an observation to different values

Description

Creates a new data.frame with copies of the original observation, each assigned to a different user specified value of a variable. Allows the user to look at the effect of changing a variable on predicted values.

Usage

wiggle(data, var, values)

Arguments

data

a data frame with one or more observations to be reassigned

var

a character specifying the name of the variable to adjust

values

a vector with the variables to assign to var

Details

If the variable specified is a factor, then wiggle will return it as a character.

Value

a data frame with each row in data assigned to all values for the variable chosen

Examples

data(iris)
wiggle(iris[3,], "Sepal.Width", values = c(1, 2, 3, 5))
wiggle(iris[3:5,], "Sepal.Width", values = c(1, 2, 3, 5))

[Package merTools version 0.3.0 Index]