detectAllCharacters: Apply detectCharacterType over an entire matrix

In ropensci/treedata.table: Manipulation of Matched Phylogenies and Data using 'data.table'

Description

This function detects whether each column in a matrix is a continuous (e.g., with values 2.45, 9.35, and so on) or a discrete character (e.g., with values blue, red, yellow).

Usage

detectAllCharacters(mat, cutoff = 0.1)

Arguments

mat	A matrix of data
cutoff	Cutoff value for deciding if numeric data might actually be discrete: if nlev is the number of levels and n the length of dat, then nlev / n should exceed cutoff, or the data will be classified as discrete

Value

Vector of either "discrete" or "continuous" for each variable in matrix

Examples

data(anolis)
detectAllCharacters(anolis$dat)

ropensci/treedata.table documentation built on Sept. 12, 2021, 6:23 p.m.