RQDA (version 0.3-1)

relation: Relation between two codings

Description

To calculate the relation between two codings, given the coding indexes.

Usage

relation(index1, index2)

Arguments

index1

The first coding index, it is length-2 integer vector with the first element (index1[1]) less than the second element (index1[2]).

index2

The second coding index, it is length-2 integer vector with the first element (index2[1]) less than the second element (index2[2]).

Value

A 6-element list:

Relation

Length-1 character, standing for the type of relation. It may be one of inclusion, overlap, exact or proximity.

OverlapIndex

Length-2 vector, the index of overlapping between two coding indexes. It is c(NA,NA) when relation is proximity.

UnionIndex

Length-2 vector, the index of union of the two coding indexes. It is c(NA,NA) when relation is proximity.

Distance

Distance of two coding indexes. It is NA when relation is not proximity.

WhichMin

Which argument (index1 or index2) has the minimum value. If both have the same minmum value, return NA.

WhichMax

Which argument (index1 or index2) has the maximum value. If both have the same maxmum value, return NA.

Details

The relation between two codings can be any one of inclusion, overlap, exact (special case of inclusion and overlap) and proximity (Neither overlap nor inclusion). It should be noted that two adjacent codings are regarded as proximity with distance of 0.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
relation(c(20,30),c(22,28)) # inclusion
relation(c(10,40),c(20,80)) # overlap
relation(c(10,20),c(30,50)) # proximity with distance of 10
relation(c(10,20),c(20,50)) # proximity with distance of 0
relation(c(10,20),c(10,20)) # exact
relation(c(10,20),c(10,30)) # WhichMin is c(1,2)
# }