[R] Improvement: function cut

[Leonard Mada]

Thank you Andrew.


Is there any reason not to make: include.lowest = TRUE the default?


Regarding the NA:

The user still has to suspect that some values were not included and run 
that test.


Leonard


On 9/18/2021 12:53 AM, Andrew Simmons wrote:
> Regarding your first point, argument 'include.lowest' already handles 
> this specific case, see ?.bincode
>
> Your second point, maybe it could be helpful, but since both 
> 'cut.default' and '.bincode' return NA if a value isn't within a bin, 
> you could make something like this on your own.
> Might be worth pitching to R-bugs on the wishlist.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 17:45 Leonard Mada via R-help 
> <r-help using r-project.org <mailto:r-help using r-project.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello List members,
>
>
>     the following improvements would be useful for function cut (and
>     .bincode):
>
>
>     1.) Argument: Include extremes
>     extremes = TRUE
>     if(right == FALSE) {
>         # include also right for last interval;
>     } else {
>         # include also left for first interval;
>     }
>
>
>     2.) Argument: warn = TRUE
>
>     Warn if any values are not included in the intervals.
>
>
>     Motivation:
>     - reduce risk of errors when using function cut();
>
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>
>     Leonard
>
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