detectCharacterType: Function to detect whether a character is continuous or discrete
Description
This function detects whether a given vector is a continuous
(e.g., with values 2.45, 9.35, and so on) or a discrete
(e.g., with values blue, red, yellow) character.
Usage
detectCharacterType(dat, cutoff = 0.1)
Arguments
dat
A vector of data
cutoff
Cutoff value for deciding if numeric data might actually be
discrete: if nlev is the number of levels and n the length of dat, then
nlev / n should exceed cutoff, or the data will be classified as discrete