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separateHyphens

Separate Hyphenated Variable Strings

Description

This code is a simplified form of expandCmd from the lavaan package. It separates hyphenated variable strings into a list of vectors, while ignoring hyphens that may be used in numbers.

Usage

separateHyphens(cmd)

Arguments

cmd

A character string

Details

Note that this is an internal function only.

Value

The character string if no hyphens, or a list of vectors if there are hyphens.

Author(s)

Michael Hallquist revised by Joshua Wiley

Examples

MplusAutomation:::separateHyphens("x1x4")
MplusAutomation:::separateHyphens("x1-x4")
MplusAutomation:::separateHyphens("x1-x4; x1*-1; v1-v3;")

MplusAutomation

An R Package for Facilitating Large-Scale Latent Variable Analyses in Mplus

v0.8

LGPL-3

Authors

Michael Hallquist [aut, cre], Joshua Wiley [aut], Caspar van Lissa [ctb], Daniel Morillo [ctb]

Initial release

2020-09-28