Detect: Detect variable type in a data matrix

In imputeR: A General Multivariate Imputation Framework

Description

This function detects the type of the variables in a data matrix. Types can be continuous only, categorical only or mixed type. The rule for defining a variable as a categorical variable is when: (1) it is a character vector, (2) it contains no more than n = 5 unique values

Usage

Detect(x, n = 5)

Arguments

x	is the data matrix that need to be detected.
n	is a number, indicating how many levels, if outnumbered, can be seen as an numeric variable, rather than a categorical variable.

Value

the variable type for every column, can either be "numeric" or "character".

Examples

data(parkinson)
Detect(parkinson)
data(spect)
Detect(spect)
data(tic)
table(Detect(tic))

imputeR documentation built on Jan. 21, 2020, 1:06 a.m.