filterMatrix: Filter a character matrix, returning either all continuous or...

In treedata.table: Manipulation of Matched Phylogenies and Data using 'data.table'

Filter a character matrix, returning either all continuous or all discrete characters

Description

This function filters a character matrix based on continuous (e.g., with values 2.45, 9.35, and so on) or discrete characters (e.g., with values blue, red, yellow).

Usage

filterMatrix(mat, returnType = "discrete")

Arguments

mat	A character matrix of class data.frame
returnType	Either discrete or continuous

Value

data.frame with only discrete (default) or continuous characters

Examples

data(anolis)
filterMatrix(anolis$dat, "discrete")

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