diagnose_category.tbl_dbi {dlookr}

Diagnose data quality of categorical variables in the DBMS

Description

The diagnose_category() produces information for diagnosing the quality of the character(CHAR, VARCHAR, VARCHAR2, etc.) column of the DBMS table through tbl_dbi.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'tbl_dbi'
diagnose_category(
  .data,
  ...,
  top = 10,
  type = c("rank", "n")[1],
  in_database = TRUE,
  collect_size = Inf
)

Arguments

.data

a tbl_dbi.

...

one or more unquoted expressions separated by commas. You can treat variable names like they are positions. Positive values select variables; negative values to drop variables. If the first expression is negative, diagnose_category() will automatically start with all variables. These arguments are automatically quoted and evaluated in a context where column names represent column positions. They support unquoting and splicing.

top

an integer. Specifies the upper top rank to extract. Default is 10.

type

a character string specifying how result are extracted. Default is "rank" that extract top n ranks by decreasing frequency. In this case, if there are ties in rank, more rows than the number specified by the top argument are returned. "n" extract top n rows by decreasing frequency. If there are too many rows to be returned because there are too many ties, you can adjust the returned rows appropriately by using "n".

in_database

Specifies whether to perform in-database operations. If TRUE, most operations are performed in the DBMS. if FALSE, table data is taken in R and operated in-memory.

collect_size

a integer. The number of data samples from the DBMS to R. Applies only if in_database = FALSE.

Details

The scope of the diagnosis is the occupancy status of the levels in categorical data. If a certain level of occupancy is close to 100 then the removal of this variable in the forecast model will have to be considered. Also, if the occupancy of all levels is close to 0 variable is likely to be an identifier. You can use grouped_df as the group_by() function.

Value

an object of tbl_df.

Categorical diagnostic information

The information derived from the categorical data diagnosis is as follows.

• variables : variable names

• levels: level names

• N : number of observation

• freq : number of observation at the levels

• ratio : percentage of observation at the levels

• rank : rank of occupancy ratio of levels

See vignette("diagonosis") for an introduction to these concepts.

See Also

diagnose_category.data.frame, diagnose.tbl_dbi, diagnose_category.tbl_dbi, diagnose_numeric.tbl_dbi, diagnose_outlier.tbl_dbi.

Examples

# If you have the 'DBI' and 'RSQLite' packages installed, perform the code block:
if (FALSE) {
library(dplyr)

# connect DBMS
con_sqlite <- DBI::dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), ":memory:")

# copy jobchange to the DBMS with a table named TB_JOBCHANGE
copy_to(con_sqlite, jobchange, name = "TB_JOBCHANGE", overwrite = TRUE)

# Using pipes ---------------------------------
# Diagnosis of all categorical variables
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_JOBCHANGE") %>% 
  diagnose_category()
  
# Positive values select variables
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_JOBCHANGE") %>% 
  diagnose_category(company_type, job_chnge)
  
# Negative values to drop variables, and In-memory mode
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_JOBCHANGE") %>% 
  diagnose_category(-company_type, -job_chnge, in_database = FALSE)
  
# Positions values select variables, and In-memory mode and collect size is 200
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_JOBCHANGE") %>% 
  diagnose_category(7, in_database = FALSE, collect_size = 200) 
  
# Negative values to drop variables
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_JOBCHANGE") %>% 
  diagnose_category(-7)
  
# Top rank levels with top argument
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_JOBCHANGE") %>% 
  diagnose_category(top = 2)

# Using pipes & dplyr -------------------------
# Extraction of level that is more than 60% of categorical data
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_JOBCHANGE") %>% 
  diagnose_category()  %>%
  filter(ratio >= 60)
  
# Using group_by() ---------------------------- 
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_JOBCHANGE") %>% 
  group_by(job_chnge) %>% 
  diagnose_category(company_type) 
  
# Using type argument -------------------------
 dfm <- data.frame(alpabet = c(rep(letters[1:5], times = 5), "c")) 
 
# copy dfm to the DBMS with a table named TB_EXAMPLE
copy_to(con_sqlite, dfm, name = "TB_EXAMPLE", overwrite = TRUE)  
 
# extract rows that less than equal rank 10
# default of top argument is 10
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_EXAMPLE") %>% 
  diagnose_category()
   
# extract rows that less than equal rank 2
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_EXAMPLE") %>% 
  diagnose_category(top = 2, type = "rank")
   
# extract rows that less than equal rank 2
# default of type argument is "rank"
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_EXAMPLE") %>% 
  diagnose_category(top = 2)
 
# extract only 2 rows
con_sqlite %>% 
  tbl("TB_EXAMPLE") %>% 
  diagnose_category(top = 2, type = "n")

# Disconnect DBMS   
DBI::dbDisconnect(con_sqlite)
}