raggedEdge {sparseDFM}

Generate a ragged edge structure for a data matrix

Description

Generate a ragged edge structure for a data matrix

Usage

raggedEdge(X, lags)

Arguments

X

numeric data matrix

lags

vector of integers representing publication lag of each variable

Value

ragged edge version of X

Examples

data = matrix(rnorm(100),ncol=10)
pub_lags = c(rep(2,5),rep(1,3),rep(0,2))
new_data = raggedEdge(data, pub_lags)