info: Provides variables description for dataset

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Provides variables description for dataset

Description

info returns data.frame with variables description and some summary statistics. Resulting data.frame mainly intended to keep in front of eyes in RStudio viewer or to be saved as csv to view in the spreadsheet software as reference about working dataset.

Usage

info(x, stats = TRUE, frequencies = TRUE, max_levels = 10)

Arguments

x	vector/factor/list/data.frame.
stats	Logical. Should we calculate summary for each variable?
frequencies	Logical. Should we calculate frequencies for each variable? This calculation can take significant amount of time for large datasets.
max_levels	Numeric. Maximum levels for using in frequency calculations. Levels above this value will convert to 'Other values'.

Value

data.frame with following columns: Name, Class, Length, NotNA, NA, Distincts, Label, ValueLabels, Min., 1st Qu., Median, Mean, 3rd Qu., Max., Frequency.

Examples

data(mtcars)
var_lab(mtcars$am) = "Transmission"
val_lab(mtcars$am) = c("Automatic"=0, "Manual"=1)
info(mtcars, max_levels = 5)                             

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