makeEnc: Function for "equiprobabilistic" encoding of numerical...

In clamix: Clustering modal multi valued symbolic data

Description

Prints out "equiprobabilistic" encodings (categorization) for numerical variables.

Usage

makeEnc(var, name, k, file="")

Arguments

var	variable values
name	name of variable
k	number of categories
file	file to write encoding into, default "" - to std. output

Value

The encoding is printed out and is to be used with encodeSO function for encoding numerical variables into variables suitable for symObject.

Author(s)

Vladimir Batagelj

See Also

encodeSO, create.symData, symObject

Examples

set.seed(42)
makeEnc(runif(100),"Rand",10)
# result - a LIST ():
#encRand <- list(
#  "[0]" = function(x) x<=0,
#  "(0,0.08998052]" = function(x) x<=0.08998052,
#  "(0.08998052,0.2163854]" = function(x) x<=0.2163855,
#  "(0.2163854,0.3590283]" = function(x) x<=0.3590284,
#  "(0.3590283,0.4749971]" = function(x) x<=0.4749972,
#  "(0.4749971,0.6117786]" = function(x) x<=0.6117787,
#  "(0.6117786,0.6932048]" = function(x) x<=0.6932049,
#  "(0.6932048,0.7846928]" = function(x) x<=0.7846929,
#  "(0.7846928,0.914806]" = function(x) x<=0.9148061,
#  "(0.914806,0.9888917]" = function(x) x<=0.9888918,
#  "NA" = function(x) TRUE )

clamix documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:51 p.m.