Get name of related avg, pctile, or ratio variable name

Given names_d, e.g., returns names_d_ratio_to_state_avg

Usage

fixcolnames2related(
  namesnow,
  relatedtype = c("usavg", "stateavg", "uspctile", "statepctile", "usratio",
    "stateratio")
)

Arguments

namesnow

vector of one or more basic Envt or Demog indicator variable names found in c(names_e, names_d, names_d_subgroups)

relatedtype

One of "usavg", "stateavg", "uspctile", "statepctile", "usratio", "stateratio" (but not any of the other values among unique(map_headernames$vartype) since those give ambiguous answers).

Value

vector as long as namesnow (or just returns namesnow if relatedtype is invalid)

Details

Given basic variable name(s) like "pctlowinc" or names_e, see what the related variable names are for storing the US or State percentiles, averages, or ratios to averages of the given variables.

Only works for variable names among these:

c(names_e, names_d, names_d_subgroups)

See also

varinfo() fixcolnames()

Examples

names_d
fixcolnames2related(names_d, 'stateratio')
names_d_ratio_to_state_avg
fixcolnames2related(names_e, "stateavg")
fixcolnames2related(names_e, "usvag")
paste0("avg.", names_e)
fixcolnames2related(names_e, "usratio")
# names_ej # does not work with this as input
# fixcolnames2related(names_ej, "uspctile") # does not return names_ej_pctile