detectCharacterType: Function to detect whether a character is continuous or...

In treeplyr: 'dplyr' Functionality for Matched Tree and Data Objects

Description

Function to detect whether a character is continuous or discrete

Usage

detectCharacterType(dat, repeatsAsDiscrete = TRUE, cutoff = 0.1)

Arguments

dat	A vector of data
repeatsAsDiscrete	If TRUE, consider numeric variables that repeat values exactly as discrete; see cutoff
cutoff	Cutoff value for deciding if numeric data might actually be discrete: if nlev is the number of levels and n the length of dat, then nlev / n should exceed cutoff, or the data will be classified as discrete

Value

Either "discrete" or "continuous"

Examples

data(anolis)
detectCharacterType(anolis$dat[,1])

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