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varToFactor {sdcMicro} | R Documentation

## Change the a keyVariable of an object of class `sdcMicroObj-class` from Numeric to Factor or from Factor to Numeric

### Description

Change the scale of a variable

### Usage

    varToFactor(obj, var)

    varToNumeric(obj, var)

### Arguments

`obj` | object of class `sdcMicroObj-class`
`var` | name of the keyVariable to change

### Value

the modified `sdcMicroObj-class`

### Examples

    ## for objects of class sdcMicro:
    data(testdata2)
    sdc <- createSdcObj(testdata2,
      keyVars=c('urbrur','roof','walls','water','electcon','relat','sex'),
      numVars=c('expend','income','savings'), w='sampling_weight')
    sdc <- varToFactor(sdc, var="urbrur")

[Package sdcMicro version 5.6.1 Index]