remove.erroneous.characters: remove.erroneous.characters

In DTwrappers2: Extensions of 'DTwrappers'

remove.erroneous.characters

Description

This function attempts to convert a character vector to a numeric or complex vector, replacing erroneous values based on a specified threshold.

Usage

remove.erroneous.characters(
  x,
  threshold.for.numeric = 0.8,
  variable.should.be = "numeric",
  value.for.missing = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

x	A character vector of values that should be a numeric vector but was coerced to a character due to a small number of entries.
threshold.for.numeric	A value between 0 and 1 specifying the maximum proportion of x that does not "look" numeric. If threshold.for.numeric = 0.1, then no more than 10 percentage of the values in x can be values that do not "look" numeric.
variable.should.be	A character string specifying the target variable type ("numeric" or "complex"). Defaults to "numeric".
value.for.missing	The value to replace missing or erroneous entries with. Defaults to NA_real_ for numeric and NA_complex_ for complex.
...	Additional arguments .

Value

A numeric or complex vector with erroneous entries replaced, or the original character vector if the proportion of erroneous values exceeds the threshold.

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