glottocreate: Generate empty glottodata or glottosubdata for a set of...

In glottospace: Language Mapping and Geospatial Analysis of Linguistic and Cultural Data

Generate empty glottodata or glottosubdata for a set of glottocodes.

Description

Creates glottodata/glottosubdata and optionally save it as excel file.

Usage

glottocreate(
  glottocodes,
  variables,
  meta = TRUE,
  filename = NULL,
  simplify = TRUE,
  groups = NULL,
  n = NULL,
  levels = NULL,
  check = FALSE,
  maintainer = NULL,
  email = NULL,
  citation = NULL,
  url = NULL
)

Arguments

glottocodes	Character vector of glottocodes
variables	Either a vector with variable names, or a single number indicating the total number of variable columns to be generated
meta	Should metatables be created?
filename	Optional name of excel file where to store glottodata
simplify	By default, if a glottodata table is created without metadata, the data will be returned as a data.frame (instead of placing the data inside a list of length 1)
groups	Character vector of group names (only for glottosubdata)
n	Optional, number of records to be assigned to each group (only for glottosubdata)
levels	Optional character vector with levels across all variables
check	Should glottocodes be checked? Default is FALSE because takes much time to run.
maintainer	Name of the person/organization maintaining the data (optional)
email	Email address of maintainer/contact person (optional)
citation	How to cite the data (optional)
url	Optional url linking to a webpage.

Details

By default, glottodata will be created. In case a groups argument is provided, glottosubdata will be created.

glottodata has one table for all languages (and a number of metatables if meta = TRUE), with one row per glottocode. glottosubdata has one table for each language (and a number of metatables if meta = TRUE), with one row per glottosubcode.

Run glottoget("demodata") or glottoget("demosubdata") to see examples.

In case you already have your own dataset and want to convert it into glottodata, use: glottoconvert().

Value

A glottodata or glottosubdata object (either with or without metadata). The output can be a list or a data.frame.

Examples

# Creates glottodata table without metadata tables
glottocreate(glottocodes = c("yucu1253", "tani1257"),
variables = 3, meta = FALSE)

# Creates glottodata table with metadata tables (stored in a list):
glottocreate(glottocodes = c("yucu1253", "tani1257"), variables = 3)


# Creates glottosubdata table (stored in a list)
glottocreate(glottocodes = c("yucu1253", "tani1257"),
variables = 3, groups = c("a", "b") )

glottospace documentation built on April 12, 2022, 5:07 p.m.