add_auto_columns: Add columns with auto-generated ids

In UW-GAC/AnvilDataModels: Utilities for AnVIL data models

Add columns with auto-generated ids

Description

Add columns to a table using a hash of other columns, as defined in a data model

Usage

add_auto_columns(table, table_name, model, nchar = 8, error_on_missing = TRUE)

hash_id(x, nchar = 8)

Arguments

table	Data table to import (tibble or data.frame)
table_name	Name of data table in model
model	dm object describing data model
nchar	number of characters in the resulting strings (max 32)
error_on_missing	Logical for whether to throw an error if any columns necessary to create another column are missing. If FALSE, the function will issue a warning but proceed without adding the column.
x	string use to create hash

Details

Automatically generated hashed identifiers based on the values of other columns in table. model should have an attribute auto_id containing a vector of columns to be used.

Value

table with additional columns

identifier based on a hash of x

UW-GAC/AnvilDataModels documentation built on Nov. 3, 2024, 7:33 p.m.