new_file_meta_: Helper function for 'new_file_meta()'

Description Usage Arguments meta information

View source: R/meta.R

Description

Create a new file_meta class object.

Usage

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new_file_meta_(
  obj,
  err_h = composerr("Error while calling 'new_file_meta_()'")
)

Arguments

obj

An unnamed list, where each entry is a col_meta class object.

err_h

An error handler

meta information

The col_meta class objects are used in order to store some meta information about single data columns, like additional column desciptions, and column value/level descriptions. In order to store meta information about a set of columns a file_meta class object can be used. This objects store a list of col_meta class objects, where each col_meta class object corresponds to a specific column in a data set. This file_meta class objects are usually stored in file_structure class objects or file_definition class objects. But when calling read_data(), the meta information gets also appended to the resulting data.frame. The meta information stored in a file_structure, a file_definition class object or a read data.frame can be extracted by using the function get_meta(). A col_meta class object holds the following informations:


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