oneOrDataset {compositions}

Treating single compositions as one-row datasets

Description

A dataset is converted to a data matrix. A single data item (i.e. a simple vector) is converted to a one-row data matrix.

Usage

          oneOrDataset(W,B=NULL)
          

Arguments

W

a vector, matrix or dataframe

B

an optional second vector, matrix or data frame having the intended number of rows.

Value

A data matrix containing the same data as W. If W is a vector it is interpreded as a single row. If B is given and length(dim(B))!= 2 and W is a vector, then W is repeated nrow(B) times.

Author(s)

K.Gerald v.d. Boogaart http://www.stat.boogaart.de

Examples

oneOrDataset(c(1,2,3))
oneOrDataset(c(1,2,3),matrix(1:12,nrow=4))
oneOrDataset(data.frame(matrix(1:12,nrow=4)))