data.tree (version 1.1.0)

Get: Traverse a Tree and Collect Values

Description

The Get method is one of the most important ones of the data.tree package. It lets you traverse a tree and collect values along the way. Alternatively, you can call a method or a function on each Node.

Usage

# OO-style:
#node$Get(attribute, 
#        ..., 
#        traversal = c("pre-order", "post-order", "in-order", "level", "ancestor"), 
#        pruneFun = NULL, 
#        filterFun = NULL, 
#        format = FALSE, 
#        inheritFromAncestors = FALSE)
         
# traditional:
Get(nodes, 
    attribute, 
    ..., 
    format = FALSE, 
    inheritFromAncestors = FALSE, 
    simplify = c(TRUE, FALSE, "array", "regular"))

Value

a vector containing the atrributes collected during traversal, in traversal order. NULL is converted to NA, such that length(Node$Get) == Node$totalCount

Arguments

nodes

The nodes on which to perform the Get (typically obtained via Traverse)

attribute

determines what is collected. The attribute can be

• a.) the name of a field or a property/active of each Node in the tree, e.g. acme$Get("p") or acme$Get("position")

• b.) the name of a method of each Node in the tree, e.g. acme$Get("levelZeroBased"), where e.g. acme$levelZeroBased <- function() acme$level - 1

• c.) a function, whose first argument must be a Node e.g. acme$Get(function(node) node$cost * node$p)

...

in case the attribute is a function or a method, the ellipsis is passed to it as additional arguments.

format

if FALSE (the default), no formatting is being used. If TRUE, then the first formatter (if any) found along the ancestor path is being used for formatting (see SetFormat). If format is a function, then the collected value is passed to that function, and the result is returned.

inheritFromAncestors

if TRUE, then the path above a Node is searched to get the attribute in case it is NULL.

simplify

same as sapply, i.e. TRUE, FALSE or "array". Additionally, you can specify "regular" if each returned value is of length > 1, and equally named. See below for an example.

See Also

Node

Set

Do

Traverse

Examples

data(acme)
acme$Get("level")
acme$Get("totalCount")
 

acme$Get(function(node) node$cost * node$p,
         filterFun = isLeaf)

#This is equivalent:
nodes <- Traverse(acme, filterFun = isLeaf)
Get(nodes, function(node) node$cost * node$p)

   
#simplify = "regular" will preserve names
acme$Get(function(x) c(position = x$position, level = x$level), simplify = "regular")