add_process_preset: Add, apply, list, amend or remove 'xpdb' processing presets

In xpose.xtras: Extra Functionality for the 'xpose' Package

Add, apply, list, amend or remove xpdb processing presets

Description

A "process preset" is a one-sided formula (using .x for the incoming xpdb, as in a purrr-style lambda) or a plain function that bundles up a repeated processing pipeline – e.g. converting to xp_xtras, dropping unused ETAs, assigning labels/levels – so it can be re-applied with process_preset() instead of being retyped for every model.

add_process_preset() stores a preset in the current session (by name, or an auto-incrementing integer if name isn't given). process_preset() applies a stored preset to an xpdb. print_process_preset() lists stored presets. remove_process_preset() deletes one. amend_process_preset() replaces an existing preset's definition in place.

Usage

add_process_preset(
  preset,
  name = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  persist = FALSE,
  ask = TRUE,
  profile = "project"
)

process_preset(xpdb, preset, ...)

print_process_preset(name = NULL)

remove_process_preset(name, persist = FALSE, ask = TRUE, profile = "project")

amend_process_preset(
  name,
  preset,
  persist = FALSE,
  ask = TRUE,
  profile = "project"
)

Arguments

preset	<formula> or <function> One-sided formula (e.g. ~ .x %>% as_xpdb_x() %>% set_var_type(na = any_of(paste0("ETA", 5:9)))) or a function taking an xpdb as its first argument. For process_preset(), instead the character name or numeric (1-based) index of a previously-added preset.
name	<character(1)> Name to store/look up/amend the preset under. For add_process_preset(), defaults to the next unused integer (as a string) if omitted.
overwrite	<logical(1)> If a preset already exists under name, should it be replaced? (default: FALSE, i.e. error)
persist	<logical(1)> Write the resulting set of presets out to a .Rprofile so they're available in future sessions too? See Details. (default: FALSE)
ask	<logical(1)> When persist = TRUE, ask for interactive confirmation before writing? (default: TRUE; only ever consulted when rlang::is_interactive() is already TRUE)
profile	<character(1)> Where to persist to when persist = TRUE: "project" (default, .Rprofile in getwd()), "user" (the user-level profile), or a literal file path.
xpdb	<xpose_data> or <xp_xtras> object to apply the preset to
...	For process_preset(), forwarded to the preset if it is a function (ignored by formula presets, which only ever see xpdb)

Value

add_process_preset()/amend_process_preset()/ remove_process_preset() return the (character(1)) preset name, invisibly. process_preset() returns the processed xpdb. print_process_preset() returns the printed presets (a named list), invisibly.

Persistence and CRAN policy

By default, presets are session-only: they vanish when R restarts. Set persist = TRUE to additionally write the current set of presets to a .Rprofile so they're recreated automatically in future sessions.

Per CRAN policy, a package must not write to files outside tempdir() without the user's explicit, interactive consent, and never as a side effect of a non-interactive process (⁠R CMD check⁠, tests, vignette builds, Rscript, ...). Accordingly, persist = TRUE:

• only ever writes when rlang::is_interactive() is TRUE – it errors otherwise, so it is always a no-op under ⁠R CMD check⁠/testthat/ knitr – and

• asks for confirmation (via utils::askYesNo()) before writing, unless ask = FALSE is passed explicitly by the (already-interactive) caller.

The target file defaults to a project-scoped .Rprofile (in getwd()), which only affects R sessions started in that directory; pass profile = "user" to instead target the user-level profile (Sys.getenv("R_PROFILE_USER"), falling back to ⁠~/.Rprofile⁠), or any string to use it as a literal file path. Presets are written as a single marked block (bounded by ⁠# >>> xpose.xtras process presets ... >>>⁠ / ⁠# <<< ... <<<⁠) so re-syncing replaces the whole block rather than accumulating duplicate calls, and the block is removed entirely once the last preset is deleted. Persisted presets must be self-contained – since they're recreated from deparsed source on each new session, they cannot depend on transient local variables from the session that created them.

Formula presets and .x vs .

Use .x (not a bare .) as the placeholder for the incoming xpdb in a formula preset, e.g. ~ .x %>% as_xpdb_x() %>% set_var_type(...). A leading . immediately before ⁠%>%⁠ is itself magrittr syntax for building a reusable function (see ?magrittr::`%>%`): ~ . %>% f() would silently return a function instead of applying it, since the formula's own . placeholder collides with magrittr's.

See Also

xpose::xpose_data

Examples

add_process_preset(
  ~ .x %>% as_xpdb_x() %>% set_var_types(na = any_of(paste0("ETA", 5:9))),
  name = "drop_higher_etas"
)
print_process_preset()

xpdb_ex_pk_processed <- xpose::xpdb_ex_pk %>%
  process_preset("drop_higher_etas")

amend_process_preset(
  "drop_higher_etas",
  ~ .x %>% as_xpdb_x() %>% set_var_types(na = any_of(paste0("ETA", 7:9)))
)

remove_process_preset("drop_higher_etas")

xpose.xtras documentation built on Sept. 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m.