dials (version 0.0.8)

unknown: Placeholder for unknown parameter values

Description

unknown() creates an expression used to signify that the value will be specified at a later time.

Usage

unknown()
is_unknown(x)
has_unknowns(object)

Arguments

x

An object or vector or objects to test for unknown-ness.

object

An object of class param.

Value

unknown() returns expression value for unknown().

is_unknown() returns a vector of logicals as long as x that are TRUE is the element of x is unknown, and FALSE otherwise.

has_unknowns() returns a single logical indicating if the range of a param object has any unknown values.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Just returns an expression
unknown()

# Of course, true!
is_unknown(unknown())

# Create a range with a minimum of 1
# and an unknown maximum
range <- c(1, unknown())

range

# The first value is known, the
# second is not
is_unknown(range)

# mtry()'s maximum value is not known at
# creation time
has_unknowns(mtry())

# }