Extract Variable Types from a Dataframe
'varClass' returns the variable types of a dataframe. It is used internally in several functions of the 'missForest'-package.
varClass(x)
x |
data frame with variables in the columns. |
a vector of length p where p denotes the number of columns in 'x'. The entries are "numeric" for continuous variables and "factor" for categorical variables.
This function is internally used by missForest and mixError.
Daniel J. Stekhoven, <stekhoven@stat.math.ethz.ch>
data(iris) varClass(iris) ## We have four continuous and one categorical variable.
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