tbl_ord: A unified ordination object class

tbl_ordR Documentation

A unified ordination object class

Description

These functions wrap ordination objects in the class tbl_ord, create tbl_ords directly from matrices, and test for the class and basic structure.

Usage

as_tbl_ord(x)

## S3 method for class 'tbl_ord'
as_tbl_ord(x)

make_tbl_ord(rows = NULL, cols = NULL, ...)

is_tbl_ord(x)

is.tbl_ord(x)

valid_tbl_ord(x)

un_tbl_ord(x)

Arguments

x

An ordination object.

rows, cols

Matrices to be used as factors of a tbl_ord.

...

Additional elements of a custom tbl_ord.

Details

The tbl_ord class wraps around a range of ordination classes, making available a suite of ordination tools that specialize to each original object class. These tools include format() and fortify() methods, which facilitate the print() method and the ggbiplot() function.

No default method is provided for as_tbl_ord(), despite most defined methods being equivalent (simply appending 'tbl_ord' to the vector of object classes). This prevents objects for which other methods are not defined from being re-classed as tbl_ords.

The function make_tbl_ord() creates a tbl_ord structured as a list of two matrices, u and v, which must have the same number of columns and the same column names.

is_tbl_ord() checks an object x for the tbl_ord class; valid_tbl_ord() additionally checks for consistency between recover_coord(x) and the columns of recover_rows(x) and recover_cols(x), using the recoverers. un_tbl_ord() removes attributes associated with the tbl_ord class in order to restore an object that was originally passed to as_tbl_ord.

Value

A tbl_ord (as*(), make*()), an S3-class model object that can be wrapped as one (un*()), or a logical value (is*(), value*()).

Examples

# illustrative ordination: FA of Swiss social data
swiss_fa <- factanal(swiss, factors = 3L, scores = "regression")
print(swiss_fa)

# add the 'tbl_ord' wrapper
swiss_fa_ord <- as_tbl_ord(swiss_fa)
# inspect wrapped model
is_tbl_ord(swiss_fa_ord)
print(swiss_fa_ord)
valid_tbl_ord(swiss_fa_ord)
# unwrap the model
un_tbl_ord(swiss_fa_ord)

# create a 'tbl_ord' directly from row and column factors
# (missing inertia & other attributes)
swiss_fa_ord2 <- make_tbl_ord(rows = swiss_fa$scores, cols = swiss_fa$loadings)
# inspect wrapped factors
is_tbl_ord(swiss_fa_ord2)
print(swiss_fa_ord2)
valid_tbl_ord(swiss_fa_ord2)
# unwrap factors
un_tbl_ord(swiss_fa_ord2)

ordr documentation built on Oct. 21, 2022, 1:07 a.m.