interaction

R Base 3.6.2

interaction computes a factor which represents the interaction of the given factors. The result of interaction is always unordered.

Syntax

interaction(&#8230;, drop = FALSE, sep = ".", lex.order = FALSE)

Arguments

Parameter	Description
`…`	the factors for which interaction is to be computed, or a single list giving those factors.
`drop`	if drop is TRUE, unused factor levels are dropped from the result. The default is to retain all factor levels.
`sep`	string to construct the new level labels by joining the constituent ones.
`lex.order`	logical indicating if the order of factor concatenation should be lexically ordered.

Return Value

A factor which represents the interaction of the given factors. The levels are labelled as the levels of the individual factors joined by sep which is . by default. By default, when lex.order = FALSE, the levels are ordered so the level of the first factor varies fastest, then the second and so on. This is the reverse of lexicographic ordering (which you can get by lex.order = TRUE), and differs from :. (It is done this way for compatibility with S.)

Examples

Example

# NOT RUN {
a <- gl(2, 4, 8)
b <- gl(2, 2, 8, labels = c("ctrl", "treat"))
s <- gl(2, 1, 8, labels = c("M", "F"))
interaction(a, b)
interaction(a, b, s, sep = ":")
stopifnot(identical(a:s,
                    interaction(a, s, sep = ":", lex.order = TRUE)),
          identical(a:s:b,
                    interaction(a, s, b, sep = ":", lex.order = TRUE)))
# }

interaction

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