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type

Change Crunch variable types

Description

Numeric, text, and categorical variables can be cast to one another by assigning them a new "type". This modifies the storage of the data on the server and should only be done in narrow circumstances, as in when importing data from a different file format has resulted in incorrect types being specified.

Usage

type(x)

type(x) <- value

## S4 method for signature 'CrunchVariable'
type(x)

## S4 method for signature 'VariableEntity'
type(x)

## S4 replacement method for signature 'CrunchVariable'
type(x) <- value

Arguments

`x`	a Variable
`value`	For the setter, a character value in c("numeric", "text", "categorical")

Value

Getter returns character; setter returns x duly modified.

crunch

Crunch.io Data Tools

v1.28.0

LGPL (>= 3)

Authors

Greg Freedman Ellis [aut, cre], Jonathan Keane [aut], Mike Malecki [aut], Neal Richardson [aut], Gordon Shotwell [aut]

Initial release