multiplex (version 3.7)

as.strings: Coerce an Object to a Strings Class

Description

A generic function for coercing an R object to a Rel.Strings class.

Usage

as.strings(x, lbs = NULL)

Value

An object of ‘Strings’ class

wt

word tables

ord

number of unique relations in the semigroup

Arguments

x

an array; usually with three dimensions of stacked matrices where the multiple relations are placed.

lbs

(optional) labels of strings

Author

Antonio Rivero Ostoic

Details

This function is useful to proceed with the establishment of the partial order in the strings of relations where the object should be of a ‘Strings’ class.

See Also

strings, partial.order, zbind

Examples

# create the data: two sets with a pair of binary relations among 
# three elements
arr1 <- round( replace( array(runif(18), c(3,3,2)), array(runif(18),
        c(3,3,2))>.5, 3 ) )

arr2 <- round( replace( array(runif(18), c(3,3,2)), array(runif(18),
        c(3,3,2))>.5, 3 ) )

# bind the data sets
arrs <- zbind(arr1, arr2)

# make the data a strings object
as.strings(arrs)