CONTVARIABLE

Inspect or change CONTVARIABLE.

Setting CONTVARIABLE indexes several variables in table2. Removing CONTVARIABLE removes the indexing from table2.

Usage

px_contvariable(x, value)

# S3 method for class 'px'
px_contvariable(x, value)

Arguments

x

A px object

value

Optional. A character string. If missing, the current CONTVARIABLE is returned. If NULL, CONTVARIABLE is removed.

Value

A px object or a character string.

See also

Statistics Sweden's documentation

Examples

# Set CONTVARIABLE
x1 <-
  px(population_gl) |>
  px_contvariable('gender')

# After setting CONTVARIABLE some variables are index by it, e.g. UNITS
px_units(x1)
#> # A tibble: 2 × 3
#>   code   language value
#>   <chr>  <chr>    <chr>
#> 1 female NA       ""   
#> 2 male   NA       ""   

# Remove CONTVARIABLE
x2 <- px_contvariable(x1, NULL)
px_contvariable(x2)
#> NULL

# Removing CONTVARIABLE also removes the index from UNITS
px_units(x2)
#> [1] ""