px_variable_type.px: VARIABLE-TYPE

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VARIABLE-TYPE

Description

Inspect or change VARIABLE-TYPE.

Usage

px_variable_type(x, value, validate)

## S3 method for class 'px'
px_variable_type(x, value, validate = TRUE)

Arguments

x	A px object
value	A data frame with columns 'variable-code' and 'variable-type'. If value is missing, the current VARIABLE-TYPE is returned. If NULL, all VARIABLE-TYPE is removed.
validate	Optional. If TRUE a number of validation checks are performed on the px object, and an error is thrown if the object is not valid. If FALSE, the checks are skipped, which can be usefull for large px objects where the check can be time consuming. Use px_validate() to manually preform the check.

Value

A px object or data frame.

See Also

Statistics Sweden's documentation

Examples

library(tibble)

# Set VARIABLE-TYPE
x1 <-
  px(population_gl) |>
  px_variable_type(tibble('variable-code' = 'year', 'variable-type' = 'time'))

# Print VARIABLE-TYPE
px_variable_type(x1)

# Remove VARIABLE-TYPE
x2 <- px_variable_type(x1, NULL)
px_variable_type(x2)

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