treeplyr (version 0.1.7)

detectCharacterType: Function to detect whether a character is continuous or discrete

Description

Function to detect whether a character is continuous or discrete

Usage

detectCharacterType(dat, repeatsAsDiscrete = TRUE, cutoff = 0.1)

Arguments

dat

A vector of data

repeatsAsDiscrete

If TRUE, consider numeric variables that repeat values exactly as discrete; see cutoff

cutoff

Cutoff value for deciding if numeric data might actually be discrete: if nlev is the number of levels and n the length of dat, then nlev / n should exceed cutoff, or the data will be classified as discrete

Value

Either "discrete" or "continuous"

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(anolis)
detectCharacterType(anolis$dat[,1])
# }