make.x.s {groupWQS}

Forms component group ID vector of X

Description

This function returns a vector which lets WQS.fit know the size and order of groups in X

Usage

make.x.s(df, num.groups, groups)

Arguments

df

A dataframe containing named component variables

num.groups

An integer representing the number of component groups desired

groups

A list, each item in the list being a string vector of variable names for one component group

Value

A vector of integers, each integer relating how many columns are in each group

Examples

data("WQSdata")
group_list <- list(c("X1", "X2", "X3"), c("X4", "X7"), c("X5", "X6", "X9", "X8"))
x.s <- make.x.s(WQSdata, 3, group_list)
x.s