checkCoercion {kutils} | R Documentation |
Check if values can be safely coerced without introduction of missing values
Description
This might be named "coercesSafely" or such. If values cannot be coerced into class specified, then values must be incorrect.
Usage
checkCoercion(value, targetclass, na.strings = c("\\.", "", "\\s+", "N/A"))
Arguments
value |
Character vector of values, such as value_new or value_old for one variable in a key. |
targetclass |
R class name |
na.strings |
Values that should be interpreted as R NA. These are ignored in the coercion check. |
Value
either TRUE, or a vector of values which are not successfully coerced
Author(s)
Paul Johnson <pauljohn@ku.edu>
Examples
x1 <- c("TRUE", "FALSE", FALSE, TRUE, NA, ".", "N/A", " ", "")
checkCoercion(x1, "logical")
x1 <- c(x1, "TRUE.FALSE", "Has a space")
## Should fail:
checkCoercion(x1, "logical")
x2 <- c(4, 5, 6, 9.2, ".", " ")
## Should fail
checkCoercion(x2, "logical")
x3 <- factor(c("bob", "emily", "bob", "jane", "N/A", " ", NA, "NA"))
checkCoercion(x3, "ordered")
checkCoercion(x3, "integer")
## Should fail:
checkCoercion(x3, "logical")
[Package kutils version 1.73 Index]