editfile

This utility function allows for free editrule definition in a file. One can extract
only the numerical (<code>type='num'</code>), only the categorical (<code>type='cat'</code>) or all
edits (default) in which case an <code>editset</code> is returned. 
The function first parses all assignments in the file, so it is possible to compute or read
a list of categories defining a datamodel for example.

Please note: active development has moved to packages 'validate'
and 'errorlocate'. Facilitates reading and manipulating (multivariate) data
restrictions (edit rules) on numerical and categorical data. Rules can be
defined with common R syntax and parsed to an internal (matrix-like format).
Rules can be manipulated with variable elimination and value substitution
methods, allowing for feasibility checks and more. Data can be tested against
the rules and erroneous fields can be found based on Fellegi and Holt's
generalized principle. Rules dependencies can be visualized with using the
'igraph' package.

Edwin Jonge

editrules

Parsing, Applying, and Manipulating Data Cleaning Rules

Edwin de Jonge

Mark van der Loo

editfile function

<dl><dt>file</dt>
<dd>name of text file to read in</dd>
<dt>type</dt>
<dd>type of edits to extract. Currently, only 'num' (numerical), 'cat' (categorical) and 'all' are implemented.</dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>extra parameters that are currently ignored</dd></dl>

Arguments

Read edits edits from free-form textfile — editfile

<dl>

<dt>file</dt>
<dd>name of text file to read in</dd>


<dt>type</dt>
<dd>type of edits to extract. Currently, only 'num' (numerical), 'cat' (categorical) and 'all' are implemented.</dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>extra parameters that are currently ignored</dd>

</dl>

editfile: Read edits edits from free-form textfile

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