Make proper percent labels

This function is a wrapper around a very common data transformation that is done every time we make a frequency plot. It changes the x variable by multiplying it 100 and creates a new variable called pct_lab which is a string of the x variable but with a "%" symbol added.

Usage

pct_conv(data, x = pct, decimals = 1)

Arguments

data

A data frame or vector. Can be left blank if used during piping

x

a variable we want to convert to a percentage. The value is pct by default and should always be pct.

decimals

Number of decimal places the percent should be rounded to

Value

The original data.frame found in data with two changes. The column called "pct" is multiplied by 100 and a new column is created called "pct_lab" that is the same as pct but with a "%" symbol at the end of it.

Examples

library(dplyr)
# get the frequencies of top andupdate 
test_data %>%
  get_freqs(top) %>% 
  pct_conv()
#> # A tibble: 4 × 4
#>   top                       n   pct pct_lab
#>   <dbl+lbl>             <int> <dbl> <chr>  
#> 1 1 [Strongly agree]       25    10 10%    
#> 2 2 [Somewhat agree]       85    34 34%    
#> 3 3 [Somewhat disagree]    75    30 30%    
#> 4 4 [Strongly disagree]    65    26 26%