Representing the fields of the data frame by a string field

 

The command packs all the data field of the <data> to one data field that is created with the name . The values are packed in the same order in which they lie in the data frame and the separator can be used between the values.

Example (ex2.4): The following example demonstrates how two fields of the Boston data can be packed into one field that is used to label the neurons of the SOM. See also the operation reclab from Sect. 7.4.10.

NDA> load boston.dat
# here the Boston data is analyzed through the TS-SOM
# and the SOM is visualized by using the graphics "win1"
NDA> select labflds -f boston.chas boston.crim
NDA> flds2str -d labflds -dout labs -sep _
NDA> reclab win1 -f labs
...