source: branches/3043-Regression-Instances-For-Scaling/HeuristicLab.Problems.DataAnalysis.Symbolic/3.4/Symbols/FactorVariable.cs

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using HeuristicLab.Common;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Encodings.SymbolicExpressionTreeEncoding;
using HEAL.Attic;
namespace HeuristicLab.Problems.DataAnalysis.Symbolic {
  [StorableType("511B0319-0180-4C2E-81AD-3A8936BE4DE8")]
  [Item("FactorVariable", "Represents a categorical variable (comparable to factors as in R).")]
  public sealed class FactorVariable : VariableBase {
    private readonly Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, int>> variableValues; // for each variable value also store a zero-based index
    [Storable]
    public IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, Dictionary<string, int>>> VariableValues {
      get { return variableValues; }
      set {
        if(value == null) throw new ArgumentNullException();
        variableValues.Clear();
        foreach(var kvp in value) {
          variableValues.Add(kvp.Key, new Dictionary<string, int>(kvp.Value));
        }
      }
    }

    [StorableConstructor]
    private FactorVariable(StorableConstructorFlag _) : base(_) {
      variableValues = new Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, int>>();
    }
    private FactorVariable(FactorVariable original, Cloner cloner)
      : base(original, cloner) {
      variableValues =
        original.variableValues.ToDictionary(kvp => kvp.Key, kvp => new Dictionary<string, int>(kvp.Value));
    }
    public FactorVariable() : this("FactorVariable", "Represents a categorical variable (comparable to factors as in R).") { }
    public FactorVariable(string name, string description)
      : base(name, description) {
      variableValues = new Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string,int>>();
    }

    public override ISymbolicExpressionTreeNode CreateTreeNode() {
      return new FactorVariableTreeNode(this);
    }

    public override IDeepCloneable Clone(Cloner cloner) {
      return new FactorVariable(this, cloner);
    }

    public IEnumerable<string> GetVariableValues(string variableName) {
      return variableValues[variableName].Keys;
    }

    public int GetIndexForValue(string variableName, string variableValue) {
      return variableValues[variableName][variableValue];
    }
  }
}