cro: Creates a minimal representation of a data frame.

In eha: Event History Analysis

Creates a minimal representation of a data frame.

Description

Given a data frame with a defined response variable, this function creates a unique representation of the covariates in the data frame, vector (matrix) of responses, and a pointer vector, connecting the responses with the corresponding covariates.

Usage

cro(dat, response = 1)

Arguments

dat	A data frame
response	The column(s) where the response resides.

Details

The rows in the data frame are converted to text strings with paste and compared with match.

Value

A list with components

y	The response.
covar	A data frame with unique rows of covariates.
keys	Pointers from y to covar, connecting each response with its covariate vector.

Note

This function is based on suggestions by Anne York and Brian Ripley.

Author(s)

Göran Broström

See Also

match, paste

Examples

dat <- data.frame(y = c(1.1, 2.3, 0.7), x1 = c(1, 0, 1), x2 = c(0, 1, 0))
cro(dat)

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