unnest_consistency_cols: Unnest a test result column

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Unnest a test result column

Description

Within a consistency test mapper function, it may become necessary to unpack a column resulting from a basic ⁠*_scalar()⁠ testing function. That will be the case if a ⁠show_*⁠ argument of the mapper function like show_rec in grim_map() is TRUE, and the ⁠*_scalar()⁠ function returns a list of values, not just a single value.

At the point where such as list is stored in a data frame column (most likely "consistency"), call unnest_consistency_cols() to unnest the results into multiple columns.

Usage

unnest_consistency_cols(results, col_names, index = FALSE, col = "consistency")

Arguments

results	Data frame containing a list-column by the name passed to col.
col_names	String vector of new names for the unnested columns. It should start with the same string that was given for col.
index	Logical. Should the list-column be indexed into? Default is FALSE.
col	String (length 1). Name of the list-column within results to operate on. Default is "consistency".

Details

This function is a custom workaround in place of tidyr::unnest_wider(), mirroring some of the latter's functionality. It was created because unnest_wider() can be too slow for use as a helper function.

Value

Data frame. The column names are determined by col_names.

See Also

vignette("consistency-tests-in-depth"), for context.

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