equalGADS: Test if two 'GADSdat' objects are (nearly) equal

In eatGADS: Data Management of Large Hierarchical Data

Test if two GADSdat objects are (nearly) equal

Description

Run tests to check whether two GADSdat objects are (nearly) equal. equalData compares variable names, number of rows in the data, and data differences. equalMeta compares variable names and meta data differences. equalGADS combines both functions. All functions produce a test report in list format.

Usage

equalGADS(
  target,
  current,
  id = NULL,
  metaExceptions = c("display_width", "labeled"),
  tolerance = sqrt(.Machine$double.eps)
)

equalData(target, current, id = NULL, tolerance = sqrt(.Machine$double.eps))

equalMeta(target, current, metaExceptions = c("display_width", "labeled"))

Arguments

target	A GADSdat object.
current	A GADSdat object.
id	A character vector containing the unique identifier columns of both GADSdat. If specified, both GADSdat are ordered according to id before comparing their data.
metaExceptions	Should certain meta data columns be excluded from the comparison?
tolerance	A numeric value greater than or equal to 0. Differences smaller than tolerance are not reported. The default value is close to 1.5e-8.

Details

More detailed checks for individual variables can be performed via inspectDifferences and inspectMetaDifferences.

Value

Returns a list with the following entries:

names_not_in_1	Which variables are included in current but not in target?
names_not_in_2	Which variables are included in target but not in current?
data_nrow	Do the actual data sets have the same number of rows?
data_differences	For which variables are the data different?
meta_data_differences	For which variables are the meta data different?

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