nature¶
Returns the nature of the variable as a Text value. The nature indicates the kind of summary statistics that can be performed on values. Nature values are:
CATEGORICAL
: the values of the variable are discrete and described by the categories of the variable or the value type isboolean
,CONTINUOUS
: values can be any in the considered value type (applies also to variables having categories that are all flagged as being missing),TEMPORAL
: value of typedate
ordatetime
,GEO
: value of typepoint
,linestring
orpolygone
,BINARY
: value of typebinary
,UNDETERMINED
when non of the above apply.
See also $var, $variable.
Syntax¶
nature()
Examples¶
$('VAR1').nature()