Alias

Constructor

Initialize a new Alias instance.

Constructor of the Alias class

Argument	Type	Description	Required	Default
container	Container	A reference to the Container object that the symbol is being added to	Yes
name	string	Name of symbol	Yes
aliasWith	Set object	set object to create an alias for	Yes

Fields

Fields of the Alias class

Field	Description	Type
aliasWith	aliased object	Set
description	description of symbol	string
dimension	dimension of symbol, setting dimension is a shorthand notation to set domain to a list of size n containing”*”	integer
domainForwarding	Flag or a vector of flags that forces Alias elements to be recursively included in corresponding parent sets (i.e., implicit set definition)	logical
domainLabels	column headings for the records data frame	list of string
domainNames	string version of domain names	list of string
domainType	none, relaxed or regular depending on state of domain links	string
isSingleton	logical if symbol is a singleton set	logical
name	name of symbol	string
numberRecords	number of symbol records (i.e., returns nrow(self$records) if not NULL)	integer
records	the main symbol records	data frame
container	reference to the Container that the symbol belongs to	Container
summary	output a list of only the metadata	list

Methods

Methods of the Alias class

Method	Description	Arguments/Defaults	Returns
addUELs	adds UELs to the symbol	uels (character), dimension=NULL	NULL
copy	copies the Alias and the parent Set to the destination container. overwrite=TRUE overwrites the symbol with the same name in destination. Symbol domains are relaxed if destination Container does not contain equivalent domain sets	destination (Container), overwrite=FALSE	NULL
countDomainViolations	returns the number of domain violations for the symbol		numeric
countDuplicateRecords	returns the number of duplicate records for the symbol		numeric
dropDomainViolations	drops domain violations for the symbol
dropDuplicateRecords	drops duplicate records for the Symbol. keep ="first" (drops all duplicates while keeping the first instance as unique), keep="last" (drops all duplicates while keeping the last instance as unique), or keep=FALSE (drops all duplicates)	keep ="first"
equals	Check if two Symbol objects are equal	other (Symbol), checkUELs=TRUE, checkElementText=TRUE, checkMetaData=TRUE, verbose=FALSE	logical
findDomainViolations	get a view of records data frame that contain any domain violations		data.frame
findDuplicateRecords	get a view of records data frame that contain duplicate records. keep ='first' (finds all duplicates while keeping the first instance as unique), keep="last" (finds all duplicates while keeping the last instance as unique), or keep=FALSE (finds all duplicates)	keep='first'	data.frame
generateRecords	convenience method to set standard data.frame formatted records. Will generate records with the Cartesian product of all domain sets. The density argument can take any value on the interval [0,1].  If density is < 1, then randomly selected records will be removed. density will accept a numeric of length 1 or dimension. This allows users to specify a density per symbol dimension (when vector) or the density of records dataframe. Random number state can be set with seed argument.	density=1.0 (numeric) seed=NULL (integer)	NULL
getDomainViolations	gets domain violations for the symbol		list of DomainViolation
getSparsity	get the sparsity of the symbol w.r.t the size of full cartesian product of the domain sets		numeric
getUELs	returns the UELs used in the Symbol	dimension = NULL, codes = NULL, ignoreUnused=FALSE	character vector
hasDomainViolations	returns TRUE if the symbol contains domain violations, FALSE otherwise		logical
hasDuplicateRecords	returns TRUE if the symbol contains duplicate records, FALSE otherwise		logical
isValid	checks if the symbol is in a valid format, throw exceptions if verbose=TRUE, recheck a symbol if force=TRUE	verbose=FALSE force=FALSE	logical
removeUELs	removes UELs from the symbol	uels=NULL (character), dimension=NULL	NULL
renameUELs	renames UELs in the symbol	uels (character of same length as current UELs or named character vector), dimension=NULL , allowMerge=FALSE (logical). If allowMerge = TRUE, the underlying integer mapping of a factor is allowed to change to offer additional data flexibility	NULL
reorderUELs	reorders UELs in the parent set that appear in the parent set dimensions. If uels is NULL, the UELs are reordered based on symbol records, unused UELs are moved to the end. If dimensions is NULL then reorder UELs in all dimensions of the symbol	uels=NULL (NULL or character of same length as current UELs or named character vector), dimension=NULL (numeric)	NULL
setRecords	main convenience method to set standard data frame formatted records	records (string vector, list, data frame)	NULL
setUELs	sets UELs for the Symbol	uels (character), dimension , rename=FALSE	NULL