indicesfn#

Purpose#

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

Format#

{ name, indx } = indicesfn(dataset, namein, indxin)#

Parameters:

dataset (string) – name of the dataset.
namein (Nx1 string array) – names of selected columns in the dataset. If set to a null string, columns are selected using indxin
indxin (Nx1 vector) – indices of selected columns in the dataset. If set to 0, columns are selected using namein.

Returns:

name (Nx1 string array) – the names of the selected columns.
indx (Nx1 vector) – the indices of the selected columns.

Examples#

Find indices using variable names#

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

// Get variable names
namein = "mpg" $| "weight";

/*
** If namein is not equal to zero
** indxin must be equal to zero
*/
indxin = 0;

// Get indices and names of variables
{ varnames, indxs } = indicesfn(fname, namein, indxin);

// Print variable one name
print "Variable names:" $varnames;

// Print index for variable one
print "Variable indices:" indxs;

This produces the following output:

Variable names:
           mpg
        weight
Variable indices:
     3.0000000
     7.0000000

Find variable names using index numbers#

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

/*
** If indxin is not equal to zero
** namein must be equal to zero
*/
namein = 0;

/*
** If namein is not equal to zero
** indxin must be equal to zero
*/
indxin = { 3, 7 };

// Get indices and names of variables
{ varnames, indxs } = indicesfn(fname, namein, indxin);

// Print variable one name
print "Variable indices:" indxs;

// Print index for variable one
print "Variable names:" $varnames;

This produces the following output:

Variable indices:
   3.0000000
   7.0000000
Variable names:
         mpg
      weight

Find all variable names and indices#

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

/*
** namein should be
** null string for getting all variables
*/
namein = "";

/*
** Indxin should be zero
** for getting all variables
*/
indxin = 0;

// Get indices and names of variables
{ varnames, indxs } = indicesfn(fname, namein, indxin);

// Print variable one name
print "Variable names:" $varnames;

// Print index for variable one
print "Variable indices:" indxs;

This produces the following output :

Variable names:
          make
         price
           mpg
         rep78
      headroom
         trunk
        weight
        length
          turn
  displacement
    gear_ratio
       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 namein is a null string and indxin is 0, all columns of the dataset will be selected.

If an error occurs, indx will be set to a scalar error code. The following error codes are possible:

1	Can’t open data file
2	Variable not found
3	Indices outside of range of columns

Source#

indices.src