Get value scale of referendum data variables

Returns the value scale of the specified rfrnds() columns.

Usage

val_scale(var_names)

Arguments

var_names

Variable name(s) present in data_codebook for which the value scale is to be returned. A character vector.

Value

A character scalar.

See also

Other referendum metadata functions: data_codebook, prettify_var_names(), val_lbls(), var_name_unnested(), var_vals()

Examples

rdb::val_scale("level")
#> [1] "ordinal_ascending"
paste0("topics_tier_", 1:3) |> rdb::val_scale()
#> [1] "nominal" "nominal" "nominal"