Binarize survey responses by cutpoints. — binarize_responses • survalign

Converts selected question columns to 0/1 based on scale or proportion cutpoints, with optional NA recoding. Stores binarized_cols as an attribute.

Usage

binarize_responses(
  data,
  ques_cols = NULL,
  ques_stem = NULL,
  threshold = 0.5,
  thresholds = list(),
  na_values = NULL
)

Arguments

data: Data frame containing the items.
ques_cols: Character vector of columns to binarize.
ques_stem: Character vector of question stems to binarize.
threshold: Proportion threshold for default binarization.
thresholds: Named list of cutpoints by scale length.
na_values: Values to recode to NA before binarization.

Value

Data frame with binarized columns.