R/aliasmodel.R

In skpr: Design of Experiments Suite: Generate and Evaluate Optimal Designs

#'@title Alias terms
#'
#'@description Creates alias terms for Alias-optimal designs
#'
#'@param formula The formula to be expanded
#'@keywords internal
#'@import utils
#'@return Returns aliased model terms from formula
aliasmodel = function(formula, power) {
  existingterms = paste0("`", attr(terms(formula), "term.labels"), "`")
  variables = paste0("`", all.vars(formula), "`")

  if (power < 2) {
    stop("skpr: Aliased terms must be greater than linear")
  }

  aliasterms = c()

  if (length(variables) == 1) {
    return(formula)
  }
  for (pow in 2:power) {
    powerterms = apply(combn(variables, pow), 2, paste, collapse = "*")
    powerterms = powerterms[!(powerterms %in% existingterms)]
    if (length(powerterms) > 0) {
      aliasterms = c(aliasterms, paste(powerterms, collapse = " + "))
    }
  }

  if (length(aliasterms) == 0) {
    return(formula)
  }

  aliasterms = paste0(aliasterms, collapse = " + ")
  aliasterms = paste0(c("~", aliasterms), collapse = "")

  return(as.formula(aliasterms))
}