compare_metadata_to_df: Compare Metadata to Manifest Traits

View source: R/manifest_trait_metadata.R

compare_metadata_to_dfR Documentation

Compare Metadata to Manifest Traits

Description

Compare the supplied meta data to that implicit in a data frame of manifest traits.

Usage

compare_metadata_to_df(
  n_traits,
  manifest_trait_df,
  trait_names,
  trait_type,
  trait_levels,
  manifest_trait_index
)

Arguments

n_traits

A natural number. The number of manifest traits.

manifest_trait_df

A data frame. Observed manifest traits.

trait_names

A P-dimensional character vector. The manifest trait names.

trait_type

A P-dimensional vector of unordered factors belonging to one of 4 levels. The trait type corresponding to each of the named manifest traits. Ordinal traits are denoted ord, nominal are nom, scalar-valued continuous are con, and function-valued traits are fvt.

trait_levels

A P-dimensional vector. The number of levels associated with each manifest trait. NA for continuous traits.

manifest_trait_index

A P-dimensional list. columns of manifest_trait_df associated with each trait. List elements will be scalar valued for ordinal, nominal, and scalar-valued continuous traits. Function-valued traits are multi-variate and indexed by a vector of values.

Value

Reports error messages if metadata and dataframe do not match.


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