umx (version 4.0.0)

xmu_match.arg: Select first item in list of options, while being flexible about choices.

Description

Like a smart version of match.arg(): Handles selecting parameter options when default is a list. Unlike match.arg() xmu_match.arg allows items not in the list.

Usage

xmu_match.arg(x, option_list, check = TRUE)

Arguments

x

the value chosen (may be the default option list)

option_list

A vector of valid options

check

Whether to check that single items are in the list. Set false to accept abbreviations (defaults to TRUE)

Value

• one validated option

References

• https://www.github.com/tbates/umx

See Also

• match.arg()

Other xmu internal not for end user: umxModel(), umxRenameMatrix(), umxTwinMaker(), umx_APA_pval(), umx_fun_mean_sd(), umx_get_bracket_addresses(), umx_make(), umx_standardize(), umx_string_to_algebra(), umx, xmuHasSquareBrackets(), xmuLabel_MATRIX_Model(), xmuLabel_Matrix(), xmuLabel_RAM_Model(), xmuMI(), xmuMakeDeviationThresholdsMatrices(), xmuMakeOneHeadedPathsFromPathList(), xmuMakeTwoHeadedPathsFromPathList(), xmuMaxLevels(), xmuMinLevels(), xmuPropagateLabels(), xmuRAM2Ordinal(), xmuTwinSuper_Continuous(), xmuTwinUpgradeMeansToCovariateModel(), xmu_CI_merge(), xmu_CI_stash(), xmu_DF_to_mxData_TypeCov(), xmu_PadAndPruneForDefVars(), xmu_cell_is_on(), xmu_check_levels_identical(), xmu_check_needs_means(), xmu_check_variance(), xmu_clean_label(), xmu_data_missing(), xmu_data_swap_a_block(), xmu_describe_data_WLS(), xmu_dot_make_paths(), xmu_dot_make_residuals(), xmu_dot_maker(), xmu_dot_move_ranks(), xmu_dot_rank_str(), xmu_extract_column(), xmu_get_CI(), xmu_lavaan_process_group(), xmu_make_TwinSuperModel(), xmu_make_bin_cont_pair_data(), xmu_make_mxData(), xmu_name_from_lavaan_str(), xmu_path2twin(), xmu_path_regex(), xmu_safe_run_summary(), xmu_set_sep_from_suffix(), xmu_show_fit_or_comparison(), xmu_simplex_corner(), xmu_standardize_ACEcov(), xmu_standardize_ACEv(), xmu_standardize_ACE(), xmu_standardize_CP(), xmu_standardize_IP(), xmu_standardize_RAM(), xmu_standardize_SexLim(), xmu_standardize_Simplex(), xmu_start_value_list(), xmu_starts(), xmu_twin_add_WeightMatrices(), xmu_twin_check(), xmu_twin_get_var_names(), xmu_twin_upgrade_selDvs2SelVars()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
option_list = c("default", "par.observed", "empirical")

xmu_match.arg("par.observed", option_list)
xmu_match.arg("allow me", option_list, check = FALSE)
xmu_match.arg(option_list, option_list)
option_list = c(NULL, "par.observed", "empirical")
 # fails with NULL!!!!!
xmu_match.arg(option_list, option_list)
option_list = c(NA, "par.observed", "empirical")
xmu_match.arg(option_list, option_list) # use NA instead
option_list = c(TRUE, FALSE, NA)
xmu_match.arg(option_list, option_list) # works with non character
# An example of checking a bad item and stopping
# }
# NOT RUN {
xmu_match.arg("bad", option_list)
# }