relevels: Relevel a factor by a named or unnamed vector.

In ribiosUtils: Utilities from and Interface to the Bioinfo-C (BIOS) Library

Description

This function wraps relevelsByNamedVec for named vector and relevelsByNotNamedVec for not named vectors

Usage

relevels(
  x,
  refs,
  missingLevels = c("pass", "warning", "error"),
  unrecognisedLevels = c("warning", "pass", "error")
)

Arguments

x	A factor
refs	A named vector or unnamed vector.
missingLevels	Actions taken in case existing levels are missing: 'pass', 'warning', or 'error'.
unrecognisedLevels	Actions taken in case unrecognised levels are found: 'pass', 'warning', or 'error'.

Value

A vector of factor

See Also

relevelsByNamedVec and relevelsByNotNamedVec

Examples

oldFactor <- factor(c("A", "B", "A", "C", "B"), levels=LETTERS[1:3])
refLevels <- c("B", "C", "A")
refDict <- c("A"="a", "B"="b", "C"="c")
newFactor <- relevels(oldFactor, refLevels)
stopifnot(identical(newFactor, factor(c("A", "B", "A", "C", "B"), levels=c("B", "C", "A"))))
newFactor2 <-  relevels(oldFactor, refDict)
stopifnot(identical(newFactor2, factor(c("a", "b", "a", "c", "b"), levels=c("a", "b", "c"))))

ribiosUtils documentation built on March 13, 2020, 2:54 a.m.