wrapObject: Wrap a data frame to create an object instance

In pteetor/tutils: Utility functions for Tau

Wrap a data frame to create an object instance

Description

Wrap a data frame to create an object instance

Usage

wrapObject(df, className, required = NULL, optional = NULL, cleanse = FALSE)

Arguments

df	Data frame to be wrapped (data.frame)
className	Class of new instance (character)
required	Names of required columns, NULL if none (character, optional)
optional	Name of optional columns, NULL if none (character, optional)
cleanse	If TRUE, remove all but the required and optional columns (logical)

Value

The input data frame, converted to a tibble, possibly cleansed of extraneous columns (cleanse = TRUE), and with a class attribute given by className.

Examples

df <- data.frame(Pi = pi, E = exp(1), Foo = "fum")
wrapObject(df, "Numbers")
wrapObject(df, "Numbers", required = c("Pi"), cleanse = TRUE)
wrapObject(df, "Numbers", required = c("Pi"), optional = c("E"))
wrapObject(df, "Numbers", required = c("Pi"), optional = c("E"), cleanse = TRUE)

pteetor/tutils documentation built on March 29, 2025, 6:38 p.m.