expand_weights {errorlocate}

Create a weight matrix

Description

Expands a weight specification into a weight matrix to be used by locate_errors and replace_errors. Weights allow for "guiding" the errorlocalization process, so that less reliable values/variables with less weight are selected first. See details on the specification.

Usage

expand_weights(dat, weight = NULL, as.data.frame = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

dat

data.frame the data to be checked

weight

weight specification, see details.

as.data.frame

if TRUE a data.frame will be returned.

...

unused

Details

If weight fine tuning is needed, a possible scenario is to generate a weight data.frame using expand_weights and adjust it before executing locate_errors() or replace_errors(). The following specifications for weight are supported:

• NULL: generates a weight matrix with 1's

• a named numeric, unmentioned columns will have weight 1

• a unnamed numeric with a length equal to ncol(dat)

• a data.frame with same number of rows as dat

• a matrix with same number of rows as dat

• Inf, NA weights will be interpreted as that those variables must not be changed and are fixated. Inf weights perform much better than setting a weight to a large number.

Value

matrix or data.frame of same dimensions as dat

See Also

Other error finding: errorlocation-class, errors_removed(), locate_errors(), replace_errors()

Examples

dat <- read.csv(text=
"age,country
  49,     NL
  23,     DE
", strip.white=TRUE)

weight <- c(age = 2, country = 1)
expand_weights(dat, weight)

weight <- c(2, 1)
expand_weights(dat, weight, as.data.frame = TRUE)

# works too
weight <- c(country=5)
expand_weights(dat, weight)

# specify a per row weight for country
weight <- data.frame(country=c(1,5))
expand_weights(dat, weight)

# country should not be changed!
weight <- c(country = Inf)
expand_weights(dat, weight)