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checkVectorType: Check for vector type and class

Description

Tests the input for being a vector (as defined by the isVectorAtomic function and checks the class of the vector. This function is meant to be used internally for function input argument verification and typically will not be used otherwise.

Usage

checkVectorType(x, isType="numeric")

Value

no output is returned. If these tests fail, a stop condition is executed.

Arguments

x

an S-PLUS object.

isType

a character string defining the class of the object to be checked ala is(x,isType). Default: "numeric".

See Also

isVectorAtomic, checkScalarType, checkRange.

Examples

Run this code
## expect no output from the following calls 
checkVectorType(rnorm(1024),"numeric")
checkVectorType(1:3,"integer")
checkVectorType(letters,"character")

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