I'm working with GSS data, and one of their variables is Total family income. I think that they unnecessarily split up income below 10,000 into 8 groups, so I want to join them all together. I went about doing this with string_replace, but it doesn't seem to recognize the commands.
I run:
GSS2018$`Total family income` <- str_replace(GSS2018$`Total family income`,
"Under $1 000",
"Under $10000")
GSS2018$`Total family income` <- str_replace_all(GSS2018$`Total family income`,
"$1 000 to 2 999",
"Under $10000")
GSS2018$`Total family income` <- str_replace_all(GSS2018$`Total family income`,
"$3 000 to 3 999",
"Under $10000")
GSS2018$`Total family income` <- str_replace_all(GSS2018$`Total family income`,
"$4 000 to 4 999",
"Under $10000")
GSS2018$`Total family income` <- str_replace_all(GSS2018$`Total family income`,
"$5 000 to 5 999",
"Under $10000")
GSS2018$`Total family income` <- str_replace_all(GSS2018$`Total family income`,
"$6 000 to 6 999",
"Under $10000")
GSS2018$`Total family income` <- str_replace_all(GSS2018$`Total family income`,
"$7 000 to 7 999",
"Under $10000")
GSS2018$`Total family income` <- str_replace(GSS2018$`Total family income`,
"$8 000 to 9 999",
"Under $10000")
However, nothing seems to change after I run these. The strings just remain the same. What am I doing wrong here?