NetSim (version 0.9)

create_attribute_container: Create an attribute container object and maintain it

Description

Create an attribute container object representing arbitrary values or values from a scale (factor variable) based on a numeric vector, change single values of the container and transform it back into a numeric vector. A scale attribute container has to be chosen for individual dependent variables in stochastic actor-oriented models (SAOMs) for behavior change. A normal attribute container can be chosen to represent independent individual variables in SAOMs.

Usage

create_attribute_container(numericVector)	
	create_scale_attribute_container(numericVector, min = 0, max = 1, by = 1)
	set_value(attributeContainer, i, value)
	attribute_container_as_list(attributeContainer)
	"as.numeric"(x, ...)
	"as.double"(x, ...)
	"print"(x, ...)

Arguments

numericVector

A numeric vector

min

Minimum value of the factor variable

max

Maximum value of the factor variable

by

Difference between the factor variables

i

Index of the attribute to be changed. Starts counting from 0, not 1.

value

Set attribute to this value

attributeContainer

A NetSim attribute container object

x

A NetSim attribute container object

...

Potential additional arguments

See Also

create_process_state, create_network

Examples

nActors <- 5
numericVector <- c(rep(0, nActors%/%2), rep(1, nActors - nActors%/%2))
attributeContainer1 <- create_attribute_container(numericVector)
attributeContainer2 <- 
	create_scale_attribute_container(numericVector, min = 0, max = 2, by = 1)

attributeContainer1 <- set_value(attributeContainer1, i = 0, value = 5)
# does not change anything as 5 is out of range
attributeContainer2 <- set_value(attributeContainer2, i = 0, value = 5)

as.numeric(attributeContainer1)
as.numeric(attributeContainer2)