getPWseparator: Identify Separator In Pairwise Group-Names Or Find Separator For Use With Pairwise Group-Names This function allows identifing separator used when pairwise groups are presented.

Description

Identify Separator In Pairwise Group-Names Or Find Separator For Use With Pairwise Group-Names

This function allows identifing separator used when pairwise groups are presented.

Usage

getPWseparator(
  compNames = NULL,
  grp = NULL,
  potSep = c("-", "---", "_", "___", ".", "-vs-", "_vs_", "--vs--", "__vs__", " ", "  ",
    "--", "__"),
  includeGrp = FALSE,
  silent = FALSE,
  debug = FALSE,
  callFrom = NULL
)

Value

This function returns a character vector (length=1) of the (first) separator fitting to all data, or a list with $sep and $grpTy if includeGrp=TRUE

Arguments

compNames: (character or integer) names of pairwise combined group-names
grp: (character or factor) optional groups (may include group-names that do not occur in compNames)
potSep: (character) potential separators to be checked if occuring in useComp; the first fitting will used
includeGrp: (logical) if includeGrp=TRUE a list including also the group-names is returned
silent: (logical) suppress messages
debug: (logical) additional messages for debugging
callFrom: (character) allow easier tracking of messages produced

Details

Note : Potential separators potSep must be at least 1 character long

The character '.' may used as potSep, it will be protected internally for correct results. Note : The indexing is relative to the levels of grp, thus to sorted group-names !

Cases of usage : 1) Identify separator used in concatenated labels, ie concatenated group-names are given, (argument grp is not obligatory)

2) Find suitable identifyer for given group-labels (ie separator not occurring in any of the group-labels) when names of grp given, the first instance of potSep fitting will be chosen

Examples

Run this code

getPWseparator(compNames=c("B-C","B-D","C-D")) 
getPWseparator(grp=c("B-C","D","E"))