benford.analysis (version 0.1.3)

extract.digits: Extracts the leading digits from the data

Description

It extracts the leading digits from the data.

This function is used by the main function of the package benford to extract the leading digits of the data.

Usage

extract.digits(data, number.of.digits = 2, 
               sign="positive", second.order = FALSE, discrete=TRUE, round=3)

Arguments

data

a numeric vector.

number.of.digits

how many first digits to analyse .

sign

The default value for sign is "positive" and it analyzes only data greater than zero. There are also the options "negative" and "both" that will analyze only negative values or both positive and negative values of the data, respectively. For large datase

second.order

If TRUE, the function will extract the first digits of the second order distribution.

discrete

Most real data - like population numbers or accounting data - are discrete, so the default is TRUE. This paramater sets rounding to the differences of the ordered data to avoid floating point number errors in the second order distribution, that usually o

round

it defines the number of digits that the rounding will use if discrete = TRUE and second.order = TRUE.

Value

• A data.frame with the data and the first digits.