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is.discrete: Identify whether variables are discrete or continuous.

Description

Variables are considered discrete if they have fewer unique, non-missing values than cutoff or they are factors. Otherwise, variables are considered continuous.

Usage

is.discrete(data, cutoff = 10)

Arguments

data

A data frame, matrix or vector of values to be evaluated.

cutoff

A numeric scalar identifying the cutoff relative to the number of unique, non-missing values for ‘discreteness’.

Value

A logical vector indicating whether variables are discrete (TRUE) or continuous FALSE.