meta.data-class: meta.data data documentation class

In jknowles/metaframe: Metadata for Dataframes

Description

A meta.data object stores metadata about a given data element in R in a structured set of lists for easy output and analysis. Most commonly meta.data objects are attached to a data.frame and stored as a metaframe.

Details

The object has the following items

• sources - a list of character strings describing data sources

• units - a list of character strings specifying the units of variables

• labels - a generic character string describing an object

• notes - character strings describing any additional details about specific data elements

• revisions - a list of data revisions

• var_names - a character vector of column names in last known order

• obs_names - a charadcter vector of row names in last known order

Objects from the Class

Objects are created by calls to meta.data.

jknowles/metaframe documentation built on May 19, 2019, 11:43 a.m.