RXMCDA (version 1.5.5)

putAlternativesValues: Put values related to alternatives

Description

Puts values related to alternatives as an alternativesValues tag in an XML tree written according to the XMCDA standard.

Usage

putAlternativesValues(tree, alternativesValues, alternativesIDs,  mcdaConcept = NULL)

Arguments

tree

Object containing the XMCDA XML tree.

alternativesValues

A matrix containing the values of the alternatives which have to be stored. Each line of this matrix represents a statement of the form "alternative x has value y". The first element of each line stores the index of the alternative x in alternativesIDs, the second element stores the value y.

alternativesIDs

A vector containing the alternatives' IDs.

mcdaConcept

A string containing the specific mcdaConcept attribute which should be written.

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

altIDs <- c("x","y","z")

altVals <- rbind(c(1,1),c(2,0.5),c(3,0.2))

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)

putAlternativesValues(tree,altVals,altIDs)

altVals2 <- getAlternativesValues(tree, altIDs)