setcolmetadata#

Purpose#

Set columns in a matrix to have variable names and types.

Format#

x_meta = setColMetadata(X, varnames, types)#

Parameters:

X (NxK matrix) – data.
varnames (Kx1 string array) – Names to apply to column in X.
types (Kx1 vector) – Specifies types to be assigned to names in varnames. Valid options include: 0: string, 1: number, 2: categorical 3: date.

Returns:

x_meta (NxK dataframe) – Data with column names in varnames and types in types assigned to the columns.

Note#

The following variables are equal to their corresponding values in the description of types above:

META_TYPE_STRING
META_TYPE_NUMBER
META_TYPE_CATEGORY
META_TYPE_DATE

They may be used as shown in the example below.

Examples#

// We will interpret the first column as a posix date
// meaning the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970
x = { 1e6 23,
      1e7 19 };

// Specify types
types = META_TYPE_DATE | META_TYPE_NUMBER;

// Specify variable names
varnames = "Departure"$|"Age";

// Assign variable names to all three columns
// and create new matrix x_meta
x_meta = setColMetadata(x, varnames, types);

print x_meta;

The above code will print:

 Departure    Age
1970-01-12     23
1970-04-26     19