the data type the method works on. For example, "dist",
"matrix" or "array".
name
a short name for the method used to refer to the method in
seriate().
definition
a function containing the method's code.
description
a description of the method. For example, a long name.
...
further information that is stored for the method in the
registry.
Details
The functions below are convenience function for the registry
registry_seriate.
list_seriation_method() lists all available methods for a given
data type (kind). The result is a vector of character strings
with the short names of the methods.
show_seriation_method() shows all available methods including
a description.
get_seriation_method() returns information (including the
implementing function) about a given method in form of an object of
class "seriation_method".
With set_seriation_method() new seriation methods can be added by the
user. The implementing function (definition) needs to have the formal
arguments x, control, where x is the data object and
control contains a list with additional information for the method
passed on from seriate(). The implementation has to return
a list of objects which can be coerced into ser_permutation_vector
objects (e.g., integer vectors). The elements in the list
have to be in corresponding order to the dimensions of x.
Author(s)
Michael Hahsler
Examples
## registry
registry_seriate
## convenience functions
show_seriation_methods("matrix")
list_seriation_methods("matrix")
get_seriation_method("matrix", "BEA")
## define a new method
## create a identity function which returns the identity order
seriation_method_identity <- function(x, control) {
lapply(dim(x), seq)
}
## set new method
set_seriation_method("matrix", "identity", seriation_method_identity,
"Identity order")
set_seriation_method("array", "identity", seriation_method_identity,
"Identity order")
show_seriation_methods("matrix")
##use all criterion methods (including the new one)
seriate(matrix(1:12, ncol=3), "identity")