read_utilities: Read utilities

In pedroguarderas/mau: Decision Models with Multi Attribute Utility Theory

Read utilities

Description

Builds utility functions from definition standard.

Usage

read_utilities(file, script, lines, skip = 2, encoding = "utf-8")

Arguments

file	standardize file with definitions.
script	output script where the utility functions are defined automatically.
lines	number lines to read in file.
skip	to read the file it had to skip a given number of lines.
encoding	file encoding.

Details

The basic MAUT models are built with functions of constant absolute risk aversion, this functions could be defined with simple parameters, only is necessary a function name and the domain of definition of every function and more important is necessary no more than three coefficients for the function definition.

Value

Returns data table with definition of utility functions by range.

Author(s)

Pedro Guarderas, Andrés Lopez

See Also

stand_string

Examples

library( data.table )
file <- system.file("extdata", "utilities.txt", package = "mau" )
script <- 'utilities.R'
lines <- 17
skip <- 2
encoding <- 'utf-8'
functions <- read_utilities( file, script, lines, skip, encoding )

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