defineQualitativeScaleMethod: Qualitative scale method definition

In miquelcaceres/VegX: Vegetation data in Veg-X

Qualitative scale method definition

Description

A general function to define a method for measurements of a given subject in a qualitative (i.e. categorical) scale.

Usage

defineQualitativeScaleMethod(
  name,
  description,
  subject,
  codes,
  citationString = "",
  DOI = "",
  definitions = NULL
)

Arguments

name	String with the name of the method.
description	String describing the method.
subject	A string to identify the subject.
codes	A character vector of class codes.
citationString	A string with the bibliographic reference for the method.
DOI	A string with the DOI the resource related to citationString.
definitions	A character vector of class definitions.

Value

an object of class VegXMethodDefinition

See Also

Other define measurement functions: defineOrdinalScaleMethod(), defineQuantitativeScaleMethod(), predefinedMeasurementMethod()

Examples

#Qualitative scale with three levels
defineQualitativeScaleMethod("scale1", "Description for scale1", "subject1",
                             codes = c("A", "B", "C"))

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