coerce_discrete: Recode discrete data

In sparsebnUtils: Utilities for Learning Sparse Bayesian Networks

Description

Recodes discrete data so that the levels correspond to 0...n-1, where n is the total number of levels in a discrete factor.

Usage

coerce_discrete(x)

## S3 method for class 'factor'
coerce_discrete(x)

## S3 method for class 'numeric'
coerce_discrete(x)

## S3 method for class 'integer'
coerce_discrete(x)

## S3 method for class 'character'
coerce_discrete(x)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
coerce_discrete(x)

## S3 method for class 'sparsebnData'
coerce_discrete(x)

Arguments

x	an R object to coerce.

Details

Assumes data is unordered. Ordered factors are not supported at this time.

Examples

x <- 1:5
coerce_discrete(x) # output: 0 1 2 3 4

x <- c("high", "normal", "high", "low")
coerce_discrete(x) # output: 0 2 0 1

sparsebnUtils documentation built on Jan. 27, 2021, 9:05 a.m.