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Usage

add_index(data, cols, newcol = NULL, clean = TRUE)

Arguments

data

A dataframe.

cols

A tidy selection of item columns.

newcol

Name of the index as a character value. Set to NULL (default) to automatically build a name from the common column prefix, prefixed with "idx_".

clean

Prepare data by data_clean.

Value

The input tibble with an additional column that contains the index values. The column contains the result of the alpha calculation in the attribute named "psych.alpha".

Examples

ds <- volker::chatgpt
volker::add_index(ds, starts_with("cg_adoption"))
#> # A tibble: 97 × 20
#>     case use_private use_work cg_adoption_advantage_01 cg_adoption_advantage_02
#>    <dbl>       <dbl>    <dbl>                    <dbl>                    <dbl>
#>  1   170           4        4                        3                        4
#>  2   183           1        1                        4                        3
#>  3   195           2        4                        5                        5
#>  4   212           5        5                        4                        4
#>  5   222           2        3                        3                        2
#>  6   236           3        1                        3                        2
#>  7   255           3        1                        3                        1
#>  8   297           3        4                        4                        3
#>  9   309           3        3                        3                        4
#> 10   325           2        1                        4                        1
#> # ℹ 87 more rows
#> # ℹ 15 more variables: cg_adoption_advantage_03 <dbl>,
#> #   cg_adoption_advantage_04 <dbl>, cg_adoption_fearofuse_01 <dbl>,
#> #   cg_adoption_fearofuse_02 <dbl>, cg_adoption_fearofuse_03 <dbl>,
#> #   cg_adoption_fearofuse_04 <dbl>, cg_adoption_social_01 <dbl>,
#> #   cg_adoption_social_02 <dbl>, cg_adoption_social_03 <dbl>,
#> #   cg_adoption_social_04 <dbl>, adopter <fct>, sd_age <dbl>, …