R/change_link.R

In mi: Missing Data Imputation and Model Checking

# Part of the mi package for multiple imputation of missing data
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## these change the link function used in the imputation process

setMethod("change_link", signature(data = "missing", y = "missing_variable", to = "character"), def = 
  function(y, to) {
    fam <- do.call(y@family$family, args = list(link = to))
    y@family <- fam
    validObject(y, complete = TRUE)
    return(y)
  })

setMethod("change_link", signature(data = "missing", y = "missing_variable", to = "missing"), def = 
  function(y, to) {
    cat("Likely choices include:", y@known_links, sep = "\n")
    return(invisible(NULL))
  })

setMethod("change_link", signature(data = "missing_data.frame", y = "character", to = "character"), def =
  function(data, y, to) {
    if(length(to) == 1) to <- rep(to, length(y))
    else if(length(to) != length(y)) stop("'y' and 'to' must have the same length")
    if(all(y %in% names(getClass("missing_variable")@subclasses))) {
      classes <- sapply(data@variables, class)
      y <- c(sapply(y, FUN = function(x) {
        names(classes[which(classes == x)])
      }))
      if(is.list(y)) stop(paste("no variables of class", names(y)[1]))
      else y <- y[1]
    }
    y <- match.arg(y, data@DIMNAMES[[2]], several.ok = TRUE)
    for(i in 1:length(y)) {
      data@variables[[y[i]]] <- change_link(y = data@variables[[y[i]]], to = to[i])
    }
    return(invisible(data))
  })

setMethod("change_link", signature(data = "missing_data.frame", y = "numeric", to = "character"), def =
  function(data, y, to) {
    if(length(to) == 1) to <- rep(to, length(y))
    else if(length(to) != length(y)) stop("'y' and 'to' must have the same length")
    for(i in 1:length(y)) {
      data@variables[[y]] <- change_link(y = data@variables[[y]], to = to[i])
    }
    return(invisible(data))
  })

setMethod("change_family", signature(data = "missing_data.frame", y = "logical", to = "character"), def =
  function(data, y, to) {
    if(length(y) != data@DIM[2]) {
      stop("the length of 'y' must equal the number of variables in 'data'")
    }
    return(change_link(data, which(y), to))
  })