Check data type

Check data type

Usage

.get_data_type(dt_, desc_col = NULL)

Arguments

dt_

data.table with dependent variables data in the wide format, where rows are samples, columns are feature levels

desc_col

a character vector with column names describing the data and which do not contain data itself

Value

a string describing type of data - "numeric" or "categorical"

Author

Janina Smoła janina.smola@external.roche.com

Examples

# \donttest{
tab_cat <- data.table::data.table(
  ID = sprintf("ID_%s", seq_len(5)),
  brown = c(0, 1, 1, 0, 0),
  blue = c(1, 0, NA, 0, 1),
  green = c(0, 0, 0, 1, 0)
)
gDRplots:::.get_data_type(dt_ = tab_cat, desc_col = "ID")
#> [1] "categorical"

tab_feat <- data.table::data.table(
  ID = sprintf("ID_%s", seq_len(5)),
  grp = LETTERS[seq_len(5)],
  low = c(0, 1, 1, NA, 0),
  med = c(1, 1, NA, 0, 1),
  high = c(0, 1, 0, 1, 0)
)
gDRplots:::.get_data_type(dt_ = tab_feat, desc_col = c("ID", "grp"))
#> [1] "num_as_cat"
# }