symb2I function

Convert names of pathogen/combinations into 0/1 coding

symb2I(pathogen_name, pathogen_list)

Arguments

• pathogen_name: The allowed pathogen name (can be a combination of pathogens in "pathlist")
• pathogen_list: The complete list of pathogen names

Returns

A 1 by length(pathlist) matrix of binary code (usually for pathogen presence/absence)

Examples

symb2I("A",c("A","B","C"))
symb2I("A+B",c("A","B","C"))
symb2I("NoA",c("A","B","C"))
symb2I(c("A","B+C"),c("A","B","C")) # gives a 2 by 3 matrix.