variable: Create simple data lists

In stevencarlislewalker/multitable: Simultaneous Manipulation of Multiple Arrays of Data

Description

These functions create data lists with a single variable (variable) or several variables with identical dimensions of replication (variableGroup).

Usage

variable(x, dimids, name, check = TRUE)
variableGroup(x, dimids)

Arguments

x	For variable, the variable (vector, matrix, or array); for variableGroup, a data.frame or list with the variables in the group.
dimids	Character vector of identifiers for the dimensions of replication of the variable(s).
name	Character string giving the name of the variable
check	as.data.list

Value

A data.list object.

See Also

Designed to be used in variable arithmetic (see Ops.data.list).

To create more complex data lists see: data.list; as.data.list; dlcast; read.multitable

Examples

##
variable(runif(5), "a dimension", "a variable")

## stringing variables together using the + operator
variable(matrix(runif(15), 5, 3), c("n","m"), "A") + 
variable(letters[1:3], "m", "B") + 
variable(runif(5), "n", "C") + 
variable(array(runif(15*4), c(3,5,4)), c("m","n","p"), "D") +
variableGroup(data.frame(a = runif(5), b = runif(5)), "n") + 
variableGroup(list(
	c = matrix(runif(20), 4, 5),
	d = matrix(runif(20), 4, 5)
), c("p","n"))

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