| print.whatif {WhatIf} | R Documentation |
Print "whatif" Object
Description
Prints the information produced by the function whatif,
an object of class "whatif", to the screen.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'whatif'
print(x, print.dist = FALSE, print.freq = FALSE, ...)
Arguments
x |
An object of class "whatif", the output of
the function |
print.dist |
A Boolean; should the matrix of pairwise
distances between each counterfactual and data point be printed to
the screen, if it was returned? Default is |
print.freq |
A Boolean; should the matrix of cumulative
frequencies of distances for each counterfactual be printed
to the screen? Default is |
... |
Further arguments passed to and from other methods. |
Value
A printout to the screen of the information contained in the
whatif output object.
Author(s)
Stoll, Heather hstoll@polsci.ucsb.edu, King, Gary king@harvard.edu and Zeng, Langche zeng@ucsd.edu
References
King, Gary and Langche Zeng. 2006. "The Dangers of Extreme Counterfactuals." Political Analysis 14 (2). Available from https://gking.harvard.edu.
King, Gary and Langche Zeng. 2007. "When Can History Be Our Guide? The Pitfalls of Counterfactual Inference." International Studies Quarterly 51 (March). Available from https://gking.harvard.edu.
See Also
whatif,
plot.whatif,
summary.whatif,
print.summary.whatif
Examples
## Create example data sets and counterfactuals
my.cfact <- matrix(rnorm(3*5), ncol = 5)
my.data <- matrix(rnorm(100*5), ncol = 5)
## Evaluate counterfactuals
my.result <- whatif(data = my.data, cfact = my.cfact, mc.cores = 1)
## Print output object
print(my.result)