generateCube: Generates a hypercube from a given dataframe
In hypercube: Organizing Data in Hypercubes

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This function generates a hypercube from a given dataframe. The dimensions of the hypercube correspond to a set of selected columns from the dataframe.

generateCube(
  data,
  columns,
  valueColumn,
  fun = c("sum", "min", "max", "prod", "mean", "median", "sd", "count")
)

`data`	A dataframe that is used as source for the hypercube.
`columns`	A vector of column names that will form the dimensions of the hypercube.
`valueColumn`	The name of the column that provides the values for the cells of the hypercube.
`fun`	Aggregation function for aggregating over those columns that do not correspond with any dimension of the hypercube.

Returns a Cube object.

Michael Scholz michael.scholz@th-deg.de

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data("sales")
cube = generateCube(sales, columns = list(time = c("month", "year"),
      location = c("state"), product = "product"), valueColumn = "amount")