RXMCDA (version 1.5.5)

putAlternativesAffectations: Puts alternative affectations

Description

Puts alternative affectations as an tag in an XML tree written according to the XMCDA standard.

Usage

putAlternativesAffectations(tree, alternativesAffectations, alternativesIDs, categoriesIDs, asIntervalsIfPossible = FALSE, mcdaConcept = NULL)

Arguments

tree

Object containing the XMCDA XML tree.

alternativesAffectations

An n x m matrix representing , where n is number of considered alternatives and m is number of considered categories. Each cell [i, j] of each matrix is boolean and corresponds to encoded relation between i-th alternative and j-th category.

alternativesIDs

A vector containing the IDs of the alternatives to be considered for the extractions.

categoriesIDs

A vector containing the IDs of the categories to be considered for the extractions.

asIntervalsIfPossible

Whether put each affectation as a tag (if possible) or as a tag.

mcdaConcept

A string containing the specific mcdaConcept attribute which should be searched for.

Value

The function returns a list structured as follows:

status

Either OK if all the tags could be correctly put, or the description of the error.

Examples

alternativesIDs <-  c("a01", "a02", "a03", "a04")
categoriesIDs <- c("c01", "c02", "c03", "c04")
altAff = rbind(c(FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE),
      c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE),
      c(TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE),
      c(TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE))

tree = newXMLDoc()

newXMLNode("xmcda:XMCDA", 
           namespace = c("xsi" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", 
           "xmcda" = "http://www.decision-deck.org/2009/XMCDA-2.1.0"), 
           parent=tree)
     
putAlternativesAffectations(tree, altAff, alternativesIDs, categoriesIDs, TRUE)