as_lp_tibble: Convert metadata to a lightparser 'tibble'

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Convert metadata to a lightparser tibble

Description

Takes objects of class tbl_df, list or xml_document and converts them to a tibble with a structure required by lightparser. Note that delma represents these as an object of class tbl_lp for convenience.

Usage

as_lp_tibble(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbl_lp'
as_lp_tibble(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbl_df'
as_lp_tibble(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'list'
as_lp_tibble(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'xml_document'
as_lp_tibble(x, ...)

Arguments

x	Object to be converted.
...	Other arguments, currently ignored.

Value

An object of class tbl_lp, tbl_df, tbl and data.frame, containing the following fields:

• type (chr) Whether that section is e.g. YAML, inline text, heading, or code block

• label (chr) The tag associated with a given code block (otherwise NA)

• params (list) Attributes of a code block

• text (list) Any text in that section

• code (list) Any code in that section

• heading (chr) For type = heading, the value of that heading

• heading_level (dbl) The heading level of that heading (i.e. number of ⁠#⁠)

• section (chr) The heading this section sits within

Examples

source_file <- system.file("extdata", 
                           "bionet_metadata.xml",
                           package = "delma")
xml_data <- xml2::read_xml(source_file)
as_lp_tibble(xml_data)

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