validate (version 0.1.5)

aggregate,validation-method: Aggregate validation results

Description

Aggregate results of a validation.

Usage

"aggregate"(x, by = c("rule", "record"), drop = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x

An object of class validation

by

Report on violations per rule (default) or per record?

drop

drop list attribute if the result is list of length 1

...

Arguments to be passed to or from other methods.

Value

By default, a data.frame with the following columns.

npass

Number of items passed

nfail

Number of items failing

nNA

Number of items resulting in NA

rel.pass

Relative number of items passed

rel.fail

Relative number of items failing

If by='rule' the relative numbers are computed with respect to the number of records for which the rule was evaluated. If by='record' the relative numbers are computed with respect to the number of rules the record was tested agains.When by='record' and not all validation results have the same dimension structure, a list of data.frames is returned.

See Also

• summary,validation-method
• barplot,validation-method
• sort,validation-method
• validation

Examples

data(retailers)
retailers$id <- paste0("ret",1:nrow(retailers))
v <- validator(
    staff.costs/staff < 25
  , turnover + other.rev==total.rev)

cf <- confront(retailers,v,key="id")
a <- aggregate(cf,by='record')
head(a)

# or, get a sorted result:
s <- sort(cf, by='record')
head(s)