unpack_tspec: Unpack a tibblify specification

In tibblify: Rectangle Nested Lists

Unpack a tibblify specification

Description

tidyr::unpack() makes data wider by expanding df-columns into individual columns. Analogously, unpacking a tibblify specification makes a specification which will result in a wider tibble by expanding tib_row() specifications into their individual fields.

Usage

unpack_tspec(
  spec,
  ...,
  fields = NULL,
  recurse = TRUE,
  names_sep = NULL,
  names_repair = c("unique", "universal", "check_unique", "unique_quiet",
    "universal_quiet"),
  names_clean = NULL
)

camel_case_to_snake_case(x)

Arguments

spec	(tspec) A tibblify specification.
...	These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.
fields	(character or NULL) The fields to unpack. If fields is NULL (default), all fields are unpacked.
recurse	(logical(1)) Should fields inside other fields be unpacked?
names_sep	(character(1) or NULL) If NULL, the default, the inner names of fields are used. If a string, the outer and inner names are pasted together, separated by names_sep.
names_repair	(character(1) or function) Passed to the repair argument of vctrs::vec_as_names() to check that the output data frame has valid names. Must be one of the following options: "unique" (the default) or "unique_quiet": make sure names are unique and not empty, "universal" or "universal_quiet": make the names unique and syntactic "check_unique": no name repair, but check they are unique, a function: apply custom name repair.
names_clean	(function) A one-argument function to clean names after repairing. For example use camel_case_to_snake_case().
x	(character) CamelCase text to convert to snake_case.

Value

A tibblify spec.

Examples

spec <- tspec_df(
  tib_lgl("a"),
  tib_row("x", tib_int("b"), tib_chr("c")),
  tib_row("y", tib_row("z", tib_chr("d")))
)
unpack_tspec(spec)
# only unpack `x`
unpack_tspec(spec, fields = "x")
# do not unpack the fields in `y`
unpack_tspec(spec, recurse = FALSE)
camel_case_to_snake_case(c("ExampleText", "otherTextToConvert"))

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