splitQual {NADA}R Documentation

Split character qualifiers and numeric values from qualified data

Description

splitQual extracts qualified and unqualified vectors from a character vector containing concatenated numeric and qualifying characters.

Typically used to split ``less-thans" in qualifier-numeric concatenations like ``<0.5".

Usage

 splitQual(v, qual.symbol= "<") 

Arguments

v A character vector.
qual.symbol The qualifier symbol to split from the characters in v. Defaults to ``<".

Value

splitQual returns a list of three vectors.

qual A numeric vector of values associated with qualified input.
unqual A numeric vector of values associated with unqualified input
qual.index Indexes of qualified values (ie., where qual.symbol was matched)

Author(s)

Lopaka(Rob) Lee <rclee@usgs.gov>

Examples

    v = c('<1', 1, '<1', 1, 2)
    splitQual(v)

[Package NADA version 1.2-1 Index]