Tidy gender variable — tidy_sex • canregtools

Standardizes gender-related values into consistent numeric codes or factors. This function maps various gender-related character strings (e.g., "male", "female", "man", "woman", "1", "2", etc.) to standardized numeric values: 1 for male, 2 for female, and 0 for total. It supports both Chinese and English labels. Optionally, the result can be returned as a factor with appropriate labels.

tidy_sex(x, lang = "cn", as_factor = FALSE)

Arguments

x: A character or numeric vector containing gender information.
lang: Character, specify the output language, options are 'cn', or 'en', default is 'cn'.
as_factor: Logical, indicate whether output value as factor.

Value

A numeric vector or a factor representing gender:

0: Total
1: Male
2: Female

If as_factor = TRUE, a factor is returned with labels in the specified language (lang).

Examples

gender <- c("male", "men", "women", "female", "women", "man", "1", "2")
tidy_sex(gender)
#> [1] 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 2