relabel_class {cola} | R Documentation

## Relabel class labels according to the reference labels

### Description

Relabel class labels according to the reference labels

### Usage

    relabel_class(class, ref, full_set = union(class, ref), return_map = TRUE)

### Arguments

`class` | A vector of class labels.
`ref` | A vector of reference labels.
`full_set` | The full set of labels.
`return_map` | Whether return the mapping or the adjusted labels.

### Details

In partitions, the exact value of the class label is not of importance. E.g. for two partitions `a, a, a, b, b, b, b` and `b, b, b, a, a, a, a`, they are the same partitions although the labels of `a` and `b` are switched in the two partitions. Even the partition `c, c, c, d, d, d, d` is the same as the previous two although it uses a different set of labels. Here `relabel_class` function relabels `class` vector according to the labels in `ref` vector by looking for a mapping `m()` to maximize `sum(m(class) == ref)`.

Mathematically, this is called linear sum assignment problem and it is solved by `solve_LSAP`.

### Value

A named vector where names correspond to the labels in `class` and values correspond to `ref`, which means `map = relabel_class(class, ref); map[class]` returns the relabelled labels.

The returned object attaches a data frame with three columns:

- original labels. in `class`

- adjusted labels. according to `ref`

- reference labels. in `ref`

If `return_map` in the `relabel_class` is set to `FALSE`, the function simply returns a vector of adjusted class labels.

If the function returns the mapping vector (when `return_map = TRUE`), the mapping variable is always character, which means, if your `class` and `ref` are numeric, you need to convert them back to numeric explicitely. If `return_map = FALSE`, the returned relabelled vector has the same mode as `class`.

### Examples

    class = c(rep("a", 10), rep("b", 3))
    ref = c(rep("b", 4), rep("a", 9))
    relabel_class(class, ref)
    relabel_class(class, ref, return_map = FALSE)
    # if class and ref are from completely different sets
    class = c(rep("A", 10), rep("B", 3))
    relabel_class(class, ref)

    # class labels are numeric
    class = c(rep(1, 10), rep(2, 3))
    ref = c(rep(2, 4), rep(1, 9))
    relabel_class(class, ref)
    relabel_class(class, ref, return_map = FALSE)

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