addCategories: addCategories

In rkuttner7/homeBudget: Maintain records and report on spending, income, and savings

Description

For each budget category check if in any pattern is a match with the Description. Return the name of the category that matches.

Usage

addCategories(Description, myCategories)

Arguments

Description	character vector
myCategories	list; each named element contains a character vector of all known patterns defining that category.

Details

If none of the categories contain a pattern that matches then return MISSING. A Description is not allowed to belong to multiple categories. The first instance of such a problem will cause an error to be thrown with the first Description and all the categories it has been matched with.

Value

character vector

Examples

  Description <- c('rent 2019 march',
                   'Happy Co. gas 20190601',
                   'New restaurant')
  myCategories <- list(housing = c('rent', 'Hardware Inc'),
                       transportation = 'gas')
  addCategories(Description = Description, myCategories)
## Not run: 
  addCategories(Description = c("gas rent"), myCategories)

## End(Not run)

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