inspect_type: Inspect character and factor vector

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Inspect character and factor vector

Description

Checks character or factor vector to determine whether it might be best to convert to numeric.

Usage

inspect_type(x, xname = NULL, verbosity = 1L, thresh = 0.5, na.omit = TRUE)

Arguments

x	Character or factor vector.
xname	Character: Name of input vector x.
verbosity	Integer: Verbosity level.
thresh	Numeric: Threshold for determining whether to convert to numeric.
na.omit	Logical: If TRUE, remove NA values before checking.

Details

All data can be represented as a character string. A numeric variable may be read as a character variable if there are non-numeric characters in the data. It is important to be able to automatically detect such variables and convert them, which would mean introducing NA values.

Value

Character.

Author(s)

EDG

Examples

x <- c("3", "5", "undefined", "21", "4", NA)
inspect_type(x)
z <- c("mango", "banana", "tangerine", NA)
inspect_type(z)

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