
Function to detect whether a character is continuous or discrete
Source:R/detectCharacterType.R
detectCharacterType.Rd
This function detects whether a given vector is a continuous (e.g., with values 2.45, 9.35, and so on) or a discrete (e.g., with values blue, red, yellow) character.
Arguments
- dat
A vector of data
- cutoff
Cutoff value for deciding if numeric data might actually be discrete: if nlev is the number of levels and n the length of dat, then nlev / n should exceed cutoff, or the data will be classified as discrete
Examples
data(anolis)
detectCharacterType(anolis$dat[, 1])
#> [1] "discrete"