resolve_id: Resolve the work-identifier column

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Resolve the work-identifier column

Description

Materializes a top-level id column that the network pipeline uses to index works (matrix rows). Resolution rules:

Usage

resolve_id(data, id = NULL)

Arguments

data	A data frame.
id	NULL or a single column name (character scalar).

Details

• id = NULL (default): use the existing id column if one is present, otherwise fall back to row numbers (seq_len(nrow(data))).

• id = "colname": copy the named column to id. The column must exist.

When id names a column other than "id" and the data already has a distinct "id" column, the request is ambiguous (the existing "id" column might itself be an entity field). Rather than silently overwriting it, this errors and asks the caller to resolve the conflict.

Value

data with a guaranteed character id column.

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