RSDA (version 1.1)

sym.obj: Symbolic Object

Description

This function get a symbolic object (row or a case) from a symbolic data table.

Usage

sym.obj(sym.data, number.sym.obj)

Arguments

sym.data

Symboli data matrix.

number.sym.obj

The number of the row for the symbolic object (case) that we want to get.

Value

• Return a symbolic object with the following internal format:

  $M

  [1] 5

  $var.types

  [1] "$C" "$H" "$I" "$H" "$C"

  $var.length

  [1] 1 5 2 3 1

  $var.names

  [1] "F1" "F2" "F3" "F4" "F5"

  $obj.data.vector

  F1 M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 F3 F3.1 M1.1 M2.1 M3.1 F5 Case4 -2.1 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0 2 0.9 0 0.1 0

References

Billard L. and Diday E. (2006). Symbolic data analysis: Conceptual statistics and data mining. Wiley, Chichester.

Bock H-H. and Diday E. (eds.) (2000). Analysis of Symbolic Data. Exploratory methods for extracting statistical information from complex data. Springer, Germany.

See Also

sym.var

Examples

data(example7)
sym.obj(example7,4)