check_trait_type: Check trait type specification

In jpmeagher/vbar: Variational Bayes Ancestral Reconstruction

Check trait type specification

Description

Check that specified trait type metadata matches the dataframe of manifest traits. This provides a non-exhaustive series of checks.

Usage

check_trait_type(manifest_trait, name, type, levels)

Arguments

manifest_trait	Variable(s) from a daframe. The manifest trait recordings to be checked.
name	A character scalar. The name of the trait to be checked.
type	A caracter scalar. One of c("ord", "nom", "con", "fvt"). The type of trait to be checked.
levels	A scalar. The number of levels associated with a discrete manifest trait. NA when traits are continuous.

Value

If the conditions are not met then returns an error message.

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