tags: Get the list of tags in a linelist

In linelist: Tagging and Validating Epidemiological Data

Get the list of tags in a linelist

Description

This function returns the list of tags identifying specific variable types in a linelist.

Usage

tags(x, show_null = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a linelist object
show_null	a logical indicating if the complete list of tags, including NULL ones, should be returned; if FALSE, only tags with a non-NULL value are returned; defaults to FALSE

Details

Tags are stored as the tags attribute of the object.

Value

The function returns a named list where names indicate generic types of data, and values indicate which column they correspond to.

Examples

if (require(outbreaks)) {
  ## make a linelist
  x <- make_linelist(measles_hagelloch_1861, date_onset = "date_of_prodrome")

  ## check non-null tags
  tags(x)

  ## get a list of all tags, including NULL ones
  tags(x, TRUE)
}

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