bcat_extract_metadata: Extract metadata

In Rbearcat: University of Cincinnati Themes and Utilities for Econometrics and Data Science

Extract metadata

Description

This utility function is useful for extracting column values that will be used for inline text by saving metadata column values in a nested (named) list.

Usage

bcat_extract_metadata(df, id_col)

Arguments

df	input data
id_col	ID column used identify observations

Value

A named list. Each top-level element corresponds to a metadata column in df, and each nested element is named by id_col values and stores the matching column value.

Author(s)

Saannidhya Rawat

See Also

Other utilities: bcat_import_data(), bcat_new_quarto(), bcat_setup_rmd(), bcat_source_rmd()

Examples

library(Rbearcat)
library(tibble)

lob_df <- tibble(lob = c("drl", "mla", "rac"),
                 balance = bcat_fmt_dollar(c(11, 26, 7)),
                 nco = bcat_fmt_dollar(c(80, 45, 800)))

# extract metadata from each column and save to list
lob_meta <- bcat_extract_metadata(lob_df, lob)

# extract individual values from list
lob_meta$balance$mla
lob_meta$nco$rac

Rbearcat documentation built on March 21, 2026, 5:07 p.m.