record Likert scale values

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Try changing the recode step to this:

~recode(., "1"=5, "2"=4, "3"=3, "4"=2, "5"=1))

The values on the left side of each recode pair have to be inside quotes or backticks if they're not legal R object names (and legal R names can't start with a number).

A couple of additional suggestions:

  1. It looks like you're reversing the numeric values. Instead of a recode, another option is to subtract each value from 6:

    ~ 6 - .

# Small example
list(1:5, 6 - 1:5)

## [[1]]
## [1] 1 2 3 4 5

## [[2]]
## [1] 5 4 3 2 1

  2. Instead of listing every column explicitly you could do:

    vars(paste0("MIPIP_", c(6:10,15:20))