explainer.character {analyzer}

Explain method for character data types

Description

This is a explainer method for character vector.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
explainer(X, xname = NULL, ...)

Arguments

X

a vector of character data type

xname

a placeholder for variable name

...

other parameters required

Details

This method removes all the missing values in x before computing the summaries.

Value

Prints the following information on console:

• vector name

• type

• number of distinct values

• number of missing values

• a frequency table and histogram. If counts of all the factor levels are less than half of length of X, then the histogram is scaled with maximum of 50

Examples

alphabets <- sample(LETTERS[1:5], 50, replace = TRUE)
explainer(alphabets)
rm(alphabets)