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mice (version 3.19.0)

name.blocks: Name imputation blocks

Description

This helper function names any unnamed elements in the blocks specification. This is a convenience function.

Usage

name.blocks(x, prefix = "B")

Value

A named list of character vectors with variables names.

Arguments

x

A data.frame, character vector with variable names, or list with variable names.

prefix

A character vector of length 1 with the prefix to be using for naming any unnamed blocks with two or more variables.

Details

This function will name any unnamed list elements specified in the optional argument blocks. Unnamed blocks consisting of just one variable will be named after this variable. Unnamed blocks containing more than one variables will be named by the prefix argument, padded by an integer sequence stating at 1.

See Also

mice

Examples

Run this code
blocks <- list(c("hyp", "chl"), AGE = "age", c("bmi", "hyp"), "edu")
name.blocks(blocks)

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