jamovi

Hello team, I came across this post while looking for a way to add both numeric levels and corresponding text labels to a transformed variable. I agree decuser's suggestion is a workaround, but i believe that would not work if we updated the dataset. We would need to do the copy paste each time manually. I think it will be a useful feature to be able to have both numeric levels and corresponding text labels to a transformed variable as there are instances in which we need both.

hi divyanair,

you are quite correct. the challenge is handling collisions between values and labels. i.e. how we handle the following situation:

[value: 0, label: "small"]
[value: 1, label: "large"]
[value: 2, label: "large"]

we have to handle this somehow, and i haven't found a good solution for it yet.

another way for you to handle this, is to create two recoded columns; one with the numeric values, and one with the text values.

sorry i don't have a better solution at this time.

jonathon