checkAlias {RCM} | R Documentation |
Check for alias structures in a dataframe, and throw an error when one is found
checkAlias(datFrame, covariatesNames)
datFrame |
the data frame to be checked for alias structure |
covariatesNames |
The names of the variables to be considered |
Throws an error when an alias structure is detected, returns invisible otherwise
#Make a dataframe with aliased variables df = data.frame(foo = rnorm(10), baa = rep(c(TRUE, FALSE), each = 5), foo2 = factor(rep(c("male", "female"), each = 5))) checkAlias(df, c("foo", "baa")) #Check test files for the error being thrown