Updates the named values of vector v with values mentioned in data.frame d

Given a named vector, this function will create a mtarix, with several copies of the vector, with different values, dependeing on some context. The context is each row of a data.frame, with columns referring to the names of v, and values for the entries in v for that row's context. Example: the rows can be different experinemnts, with each experiment assigning new values to some members of v (but not necessarily all).

Usage

update_values(v, d, as_type = "numeric")

Arguments

v

a named vector

d

data.frame with column names that correspond to those of v

as_type

a character scalar indicating a type ('character','numeric','logical',etc.)

Value

a matrix of dimension length(v) × NROW(d)