template_categorical_variables: Describe categorical variables of a data table

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Describe categorical variables of a data table

Description

Describes categorical variables of a data table. Use if any columns are classified as categorical in table attributes template.

Usage

template_categorical_variables(path, data.path = path, write.file = TRUE)

Arguments

path	(character) Path to the metadata template directory.
data.path	(character) Path to the data directory.
write.file	(logical; optional) Whether to write the template file.

Details

template_categorical_variables() knows which columns of a table are categorical based on their definition under the class column of the attributes_*.txt template.

Character encoding of metadata extracted directly from the tables are converted to UTF-8 via enc2utf8().

Value

catvars_*

Columns: attributeName: Column name code: Categorical variable definition: Definition of categorical variable

Examples

## Not run: 
# Set working directory
setwd("/Users/me/Documents/data_packages/pkg_260")

# For tables containing categorical variables as classified in the table attributes template
template_categorical_variables(
  path = "./metadata_templates",
  data.path = "./data_objects")

## End(Not run)

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