| severity {actuar} | R Documentation | 
severity is a generic function created to manipulate individual
claim amounts. The function invokes particular methods which
depend on the class of the first argument.
severity(x, ...) ## Default S3 method: severity(x, bycol = FALSE, drop = TRUE, ...)
x | 
an R object. | 
bycol | 
logical; whether to “unroll” horizontally
(FALSE) or vertically (TRUE) | 
... | 
further arguments to be passed to or from other methods. | 
drop | 
logical; if TRUE, the result is coerced to the
lowest possible dimension. | 
Currently, the default method is equivalent to
unroll. This is liable to change since the link between
the name and the use of the function is rather weak.
A vector or matrix.
Vincent Goulet vincent.goulet@act.ulaval.ca and Louis-Philippe Pouliot
severity.portfolio for the original motivation of these
functions.
x <- list(c(1:3), c(1:8), c(1:4), c(1:3)) (mat <- matrix(x, 2, 2)) severity(mat) severity(mat, bycol = TRUE)