indices

Purpose

Processes a set of variable names or indices and returns a vector of variable names and a vector of indices.

Format

{ name, indx } = indices(dataset, vars)

Parameters:

• dataset (string) – the name of the dataset.

• vars (Nx1 vector) – a character vector of names or a numeric vector of column indices. If scalar 0, all variables in the dataset will be selected.

Returns:

• varnames (Nx1 character vector) – the names associated with vars.

• indx (Nx1 numeric vector) – the column indices associated with vars.

Examples

Find indices for selection of variables

// Create character vector of variable names
vars = { mpg, weight };

// Create filename
filename = getGAUSSHome("examples/auto.dat");

// Get indices and names of variables
{varnames, ind } = indices(filename, vars);

// Print variables names
print "Variable names:" $varnames;

// Print variable indices
print "Variable indices:" ind;

This produces the following output:

Variable names:
         mpg
      weight
Variable indices:
   3.0000000
   7.0000000

Find indices for all variables

/*
** Set vars equal to zero to get
** indices for all variables
*/
vars =0;

// Create filename
filename = getGAUSSHome("examples/auto.dat");

// Get indices and names of variables
{varnames, ind } = indices(filename, vars);

// Print variables names
print "Variable names:" $varnames;

// Print variables indices
print "Variable indices:" ind;

This produces the following output

Variable names:
          make
         price
           mpg
         rep78
      headroom
         trunk
        weight
        length
          turn
      displace
      gear_rat
       foreign
Variable indices:
     1.0000000
     2.0000000
     3.0000000
     4.0000000
     5.0000000
     6.0000000
     7.0000000
     8.0000000
     9.0000000
     10.000000
     11.000000
     12.000000

Remarks

If an error occurs, indices() will either return a scalar error code or terminate the program with an error message, depending on the trap state. If the low order bit of the trap flag is 0, indices() will terminate with an error message. If the low order bit of the trap flag is 1, indices() will return an error code. The value of the trap flag can be tested with trapchk; the return from indices() can be tested with scalerr(). You only need to check one argument; they will both be the same. The following error codes are possible:

1	Can’t open dataset.
2	Index of variable out of range, or undefined data set variables.

Source

indices.src