setWidths: Set width(s) of variable(s)

In david-salgado/fastReadfwf: Fast read of fwf files with arbitrary input schema

Description

setWidths assigns an integer value (width) to the variable(s) specified in the input parameters.

Usage

setWidths(schema, widths, variables)

## S4 method for signature 'StfwfSchema,integer'
setWidths(schema, widths, variables)

Arguments

schema	Object of class StfwfSchema.
widths	integer vector with the new widths of the variables.
variables	character vector with the names of the variables whose widths are to be updated.

Value

Object of class StfwfSchema.

Examples

# A trivial example:
df <- data.frame(variable = c('Turnover', 'Employees'),
                 width = c(9L, 3L),
                 initialPos = c(1, 10),
                 finalPos = c(9, 12),
                 type = rep('num', 2),
                 valueRegEx = c('[0-9]{0,9}', '[0-9]{0,3}'),
                 description = c('Turnover of the business unit',
                                 'Number of employees of the business unit'),
                 stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
Schema <- new(Class = 'StfwfSchema', df = df)
setWidths(Schema, c(6L), c('Turnover'))

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