validate (version 0.1.4)

sort,validation-method: Aggregate and sort the results of a validation.

Description

Aggregate and sort the results of a validation.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'validation':
sort(x, decreasing = FALSE, by = c("rule", "record"),
  drop = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x

An object of class validation

decreasing

Sort by decreasing number of passes?

by

Report on violations per rule (default) or per record?

drop

drop list attribute if the result has a single argument.

...

Arguments to be passed to or from other methods.

Value

• A data.frame with the following columns. ll{ npass Number of items passed nfail Number of items failing nNA Number of items resulting in NA rel.pass Relative number of items passed rel.fail Relative number of items failing rel.NA Relative number of items resulting in NA } If by='rule' the relative numbers are computed with respect to the number of records for which the rule was evaluated. If by='record' the relative numbers are computed with respect to the number of rules the record was tested agains. By default the most failed validations and records with the most fails are on the top.

  When by='record' and not all validation results have the same dimension structure, a list of data.frames is returned.

See Also

• summary,validation-method

aggregate,validation-method barplot,validation-method validation

Examples

data(retailers)
retailers$id <- paste0("ret",1:nrow(retailers))
v <- validator(
    staff.costs/staff < 25
  , turnover + other.rev==total.rev)

cf <- confront(retailers,v,key="id")
a <- aggregate(cf,by='record')
head(a)

# or, get a sorted result:
s <- sort(cf, by='record')
head(s)