get_structure: Extract the structure of a dataset

In reconhub/linelist: Tools to Import and Tidy Case Linelist Data

Extract the structure of a dataset

Description

This function extracts the structure and content of a data.frame, storing the following information:

Usage

get_structure(x, columns = TRUE)

Arguments

x	a data.frame to be checked
columns	the names or indices of columns to compare. Defaults to TRUE which will keep all columns by default.

Details

• names and order of columns

• class of the columns

• values of the columns, for factors and characters

Value

A list containing:

• dim: the dimensions of the dataset (rows, columns)

• names: the names of the dataset

• classes: the corresponding classes (if a column has several classes, only the first one is kept)

• values: the list of sorted, unique values for each categorical column (factor or character)

Author(s)

Thibaut Jombart

Examples

head(iris)
get_structure(iris)

reconhub/linelist documentation built on Jan. 1, 2023, 9:39 p.m.