R/Symm.R

In gnm: Generalized Nonlinear Models

#  Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2008 David Firth and Heather Turner
#
#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 or 3 of the License
#  (at your option).
#
#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#  GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#  A copy of the GNU General Public License is available at
#  http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/

Symm <- function(..., separator = ":"){
    if (!(is.character(separator) && nchar(separator) > 0)) stop(
		 "separator must be a non-empty character string") 
    dots <- list(...)
    if (any(diff(vapply(dots, length, 1)) != 0)) stop(
                "arguments to Symm() must all have same length")
    dots <- lapply(dots, as.factor)
    Levels <- levels(dots[[1]])
    check <- vapply(dots[-1], function(x) identical(levels(x), Levels), 
                    TRUE)
    if (!all(check)) stop("factors must have the same levels")
    facMatrix <- vapply(dots, unclass, numeric(length(dots[[1]])))
    f <- function(dat){
        do.call("paste", c(lapply(dat, function(x) Levels[x]), sep = separator))
    }
    val <- as.data.frame(t(apply(facMatrix, 1, sort)))
    ind <- unique(val)
    ind <- ind[do.call(order, ind),]
    factor(f(val), f(ind))
}