checkAlias: Check for alias structures in a dataframe, and throw an error...

In CenterForStatistics-UGent/RCM: Fit row-column association models with the negative binomial distribution for the microbiome

Check for alias structures in a dataframe, and throw an error when one is found

Description

Check for alias structures in a dataframe, and throw an error when one is found

Usage

checkAlias(datFrame, covariatesNames)

Arguments

datFrame	the data frame to be checked for alias structure
covariatesNames	The names of the variables to be considered

Value

Throws an error when an alias structure is detected, returns invisible otherwise

Examples

#Make a dataframe with aliased variables
df = data.frame(foo = rnorm(10), baa = rep(c(TRUE, FALSE), each = 5),
foo2 = factor(rep(c("male", "female"), each = 5)))
checkAlias(df, c("foo", "baa"))
#Check test files for the error being thrown

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