column_summaries: convenience function for summarizing data.frame columns

In seandavi/sars2pack: COVID-19 data resources and analysis tools

convenience function for summarizing data.frame columns

Description

This function takes a data.frame and returns a simple summary of the columns and their content as a data.frame.

Usage

column_summaries(df, dates_as_char = TRUE)

Arguments

df	a data.frame object
dates_as_char	logical() whether to treat date columns as character

Value

a tibble with two columns, name and column_details. The name column is the column name. The column_details column is a list with five elements:

• min: the minumum value (including for dates and character)

• max: the maximum value (including for dates and character)

• class: the class of the column

• sample_values: up to five randomly-sampled values

Examples

data(iris)
cs = column_summaries(iris)
head(cs)
str(cs$column_details)

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