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var_type

Determine variable type

Description

This function returns the type of a variable as character. It is similar to type_sum, however, the return value is not truncated, and var_type() works on data frames and within pipe-chains.

Usage

var_type(x, ..., abbr = FALSE)

Arguments

`x`	A vector or data frame.
`...`	Optional, unquoted names of variables that should be selected for further processing. Required, if `x` is a data frame (and no vector) and only selected variables from `x` should be processed. You may also use functions like `:` or tidyselect's select-helpers. See 'Examples' or package-vignette.
`abbr`	Logical, if `TRUE`, returns a shortened, abbreviated value for the variable type (as returned by `pillar::type_sum()`). If `FALSE` (default), a longer "description" is returned.

Value

The variable type of x, as character.

Examples

data(efc)

var_type(1)
var_type(1L)
var_type("a")

var_type(efc$e42dep)
var_type(to_factor(efc$e42dep))

library(dplyr)
var_type(efc, contains("cop"))

sjmisc

Data and Variable Transformation Functions

v2.8.6

GPL-3

Authors

Daniel Lüdecke [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8895-3206>), Iago Giné-Vázquez [ctb], Alexander Bartel [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1280-6138>)

Initial release