Merge Text/Numeric Variables
backlog
L
Linguistic Tyrannosaurus
Please allow the ability to merge together text variables into a single text variable like you can with other categorical variables – so customer has data like in columns A and B and they want column D in yellow:
The only way to do this is using code because
Combine > As Variable Set > Merge Variables
doesn’t allow it because they are text variables.!image-20230201-194605.png|width=488,height=179!
I feel like it should also allow numeric variables as well - not sure why it’s limited.
J
Jamie Morris
Merged in a post:
Merge numeric variables with non-overlapping data
C
Cyan Toucan
There should be a built-in option that allows the user to merge numeric variables with non-overlapping data.
J
Jamie Morris
backlog
J
Jamie Morris
under review
J
Jamie Morris
Merged in a post:
Add ability to Combine text variables
S
Shamrock Cardinal
Desired Outcome:
Allow
Combine > As Variable Set > Merge Variables
functionality for Text variables as it is done for Nominal variables. For example Displayr won’t create the Merged column below, so one has to do it manually with a JavaScript variable or something:!image-20211015-194116.png|width=435,height=210!
More Detail:
This came up with trying to merge filtered text variables together per [Solution 3 in delooping.|https://wiki.q-researchsoftware.com/wiki/How_To_Disentangle_Piping_and_Looping_in_Q] But could be useful in general - I’m not sure why the restriction is there.
feature_request-merge_text_variables