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Coerce to factor with additional checks

Source: R/stabilize_fct.R
stabilize_fct.Rd

Compared to to_fct(), stabilize_fct() checks more details, but is slower. stabilise_fct(), stabilize_factor(), and stabilise_factor() are synonyms of stabilize_fct().

Usage

stabilize_fct(
  x,
  ...,
  allow_null = TRUE,
  allow_na = TRUE,
  min_size = NULL,
  max_size = NULL,
  levels = NULL,
  to_na = character(),
  x_arg = caller_arg(x),
  call = caller_env(),
  x_class = object_type(x)
)

stabilize_factor(
  x,
  ...,
  allow_null = TRUE,
  allow_na = TRUE,
  min_size = NULL,
  max_size = NULL,
  levels = NULL,
  to_na = character(),
  x_arg = caller_arg(x),
  call = caller_env(),
  x_class = object_type(x)
)

stabilise_fct(
  x,
  ...,
  allow_null = TRUE,
  allow_na = TRUE,
  min_size = NULL,
  max_size = NULL,
  levels = NULL,
  to_na = character(),
  x_arg = caller_arg(x),
  call = caller_env(),
  x_class = object_type(x)
)

stabilise_factor(
  x,
  ...,
  allow_null = TRUE,
  allow_na = TRUE,
  min_size = NULL,
  max_size = NULL,
  levels = NULL,
  to_na = character(),
  x_arg = caller_arg(x),
  call = caller_env(),
  x_class = object_type(x)
)

Arguments

x

The object to stabilize.

...

Arguments passed to methods.

allow_null

(logical(1)) Is NULL an acceptable value?

allow_na

(logical(1)) Are NA values ok?

min_size

(integer(1)) The minimum size of the object. Object size will be tested using vctrs::vec_size().

max_size

(integer(1)) The maximum size of the object. Object size will be tested using vctrs::vec_size().

levels

(character) Expected levels. If NULL (default), the levels will be computed by base::factor().

to_na

(character) Values to convert to NA.

x_arg

(character(1)) The name of the object being stabilized to use in error messages. The automatic value will work in most cases, or pass it through from higher-level functions to make error messages clearer in unexported functions.

call

(environment) The execution environment to mention as the source of error messages.

x_class

(character(1)) The class name of the object being stabilized to use in error messages. Use this if you remove a special class from the object before checking its coercion, but want the error message to match the original class.

Value

The input as a factor, or an error condition with classes <stbl-error>, <stbl-condition>, <rlang_error>, <error>, <condition>, and a specific class by failure mode:

  • <stbl-error-coerce-factor> when x cannot be coerced to factor.

  • <stbl-error-bad_null> for NULL values when allow_null = FALSE.

  • <stbl-error-bad_na> for NA values when allow_na = FALSE.

  • <stbl-error-size_too_small> when the vector is shorter than min_size.

  • <stbl-error-size_too_large> when the vector is longer than max_size.

  • <stbl-error-fct_levels> when values are not present in levels.

See also

Other factor functions: are_fct_ish(), specify_fct(), stabilize_fct_scalar(), to(), to_fct(), to_fct_scalar()

Other stabilization functions: assert_present(), stabilize_any_of(), stabilize_arg(), stabilize_chr(), stabilize_chr_scalar(), stabilize_date(), stabilize_date_scalar(), stabilize_dbl(), stabilize_dbl_scalar(), stabilize_df(), stabilize_dttm(), stabilize_dttm_scalar(), stabilize_dur(), stabilize_dur_scalar(), stabilize_fct_scalar(), stabilize_int(), stabilize_int_scalar(), stabilize_lgl(), stabilize_lgl_scalar(), stabilize_lst(), stabilize_time(), stabilize_time_scalar(), to_chr(), to_chr_scalar(), to_date(), to_date_scalar(), to_dbl(), to_dbl_scalar(), to_dttm(), to_dttm_scalar(), to_dur(), to_dur_scalar(), to_fct(), to_fct_scalar(), to_int(), to_int_scalar(), to_lgl(), to_lgl_scalar(), to_time(), to_time_scalar()

Examples

stabilize_fct(letters)
#>  [1] a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
#> Levels: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
try(stabilize_fct(NULL, allow_null = FALSE))
#> Error in eval(expr, envir) : `NULL` must not be <NULL>.
try(stabilize_fct(c("a", NA), allow_na = FALSE))
#> Error in eval(expr, envir) : 
#>   `c("a", NA)` must not contain NA values.
#> • NA locations: 2
try(stabilize_fct(c("a", "b", "c"), min_size = 5))
#> Error in eval(expr, envir) : 
#>   `c("a", "b", "c")` must have size >= 5.
#> ✖ 3 is too small.
try(stabilize_fct(c("a", "b", "c"), max_size = 2))
#> Error in eval(expr, envir) : 
#>   `c("a", "b", "c")` must have size <= 2.
#> ✖ 3 is too big.