Coerce to an aggregation structure

Coerce an object into an aggregation structure object.

Usage

as_aggregation_structure(x, ...)

# Default S3 method
as_aggregation_structure(x, ..., weights = NULL)

# S3 method for class 'data.frame'
as_aggregation_structure(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'matrix'
as_aggregation_structure(x, ...)

Arguments

x

An object to coerce into an aggregation structure.

...

Further arguments passed to or used by methods.

weights

A numeric vector of aggregation weights for the elemental aggregates. The default is to give each elemental aggregate the same weight.

Value

A price index aggregation structure that inherits from piar_aggregation_structure.

Details

The default method attempts to coerce x into a list prior to calling aggregation_structure().

The data frame and matrix methods treat x as a table with a row for each elemental aggregate, a column of labels for each level in the aggregation structure, and a column of weights for the elemental aggregates.

See also

as.matrix() and as.data.frame() for coercing an aggregation structure into a tabular form.

Examples

# A simple aggregation structure
#            1
#      |-----+-----|
#      11          12
#  |---+---|       |
#  111     112     121
#  (1)     (3)     (4)

aggregation_weights <- data.frame(
  level1 = c("1", "1", "1"),
  level2 = c("11", "11", "12"),
  ea     = c("111", "112", "121"),
  weight = c(1, 3, 4)
)

pias <- aggregation_structure(
  aggregation_weights[1:3],
  weights = aggregation_weights[[4]]
)

all.equal(
  pias,
  as_aggregation_structure(aggregation_weights)
)
#> [1] TRUE

all.equal(
  pias,
  as_aggregation_structure(as.matrix(aggregation_weights))
)
#> [1] TRUE