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Prune

Prunes a tree.

Description

Pruning refers to removing entire subtrees. This function has side-effects, it modifies your data.tree structure!

Usage

Prune(node, pruneFun)

Arguments

node

The root of the sub-tree to be pruned
pruneFun

allows providing a prune criteria, i.e. a function taking a Node as an input, and returning TRUE or FALSE. If the pruneFun returns FALSE for a Node, then the Node and its entire sub-tree will not be considered.

Value

the number of nodes removed

See Also

Examples

data(acme)
acme$Do(function(x) x$cost <- Aggregate(x, "cost", sum))
Prune(acme, function(x) x$cost > 700000)
print(acme, "cost")
data.tree

General Purpose Hierarchical Data Structure

v1.0.0
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Russ Hyde [ctb] (improve dependencies), Chris Hammill [ctb] (improve getting), Facundo Munoz [ctb] (improve list conversion), Markus Wamser [ctb] (fixed some typos), Pierre Formont [ctb] (additional features), Kent Russel [ctb] (documentation), Noam Ross [ctb] (fixes), Duncan Garmonsway [ctb] (fixes), Christoph Glur [aut, cre] (R interface)
Initial release
2020-07-31

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