stRoke/R/ds2dd.R

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utils::globalVariables(c("metadata_names"))
#' Data set to data dictionary function
#'
#' @param ds data set
#' @param record.id name or column number of id variable, moved to first row of
#' data dictionary, character of integer. Default is "record_id".
#' @param form.name vector of form names, character string, length 1 or length
#' equal to number of variables. Default is "basis".
#' @param field.type vector of field types, character string, length 1 or length
#' equal to number of variables. Default is "text.
#' @param field.label vector of form names, character string, length 1 or length
#' equal to number of variables. Default is NULL and is then identical to field
#' names.
#' @param include.column.names Flag to give detailed output including new
#' column names for original data set for upload.
#' @param metadata Metadata dataframe. Default is the included
#' stRoke::metadata_names.
#'
#' @return data.frame or list of data.frame and vector
#' @export
#'
#' @examples
#' talos$id <- seq_len(nrow(talos))
#' ds2dd(talos, record.id="id",include.column.names=FALSE)
ds2dd <-
function(ds,
record.id = "record_id",
form.name = "basis",
field.type = "text",
field.label = NULL,
include.column.names = FALSE,
metadata = stRoke::metadata_names) {
dd <- data.frame(matrix(ncol = length(metadata), nrow = ncol(ds)))
colnames(dd) <- metadata
if (is.character(record.id) & !record.id %in% colnames(ds)) {
stop("Provided record.id is not a variable name in provided data set.")
}
# renaming to lower case and substitute spaces with underscore
field.name <- gsub(" ", "_", tolower(colnames(ds)))
# handles both character and integer
colsel <-
colnames(ds) == colnames(ds[record.id])
if (summary(colsel)[3] != 1) {
stop("Provided record.id has to be or refer to a uniquely named column.")
}
dd[, "field_name"] <-
c(field.name[colsel], field.name[!colsel])
if (length(form.name) > 1 & length(form.name) != ncol(ds)) {
stop(
"Provided form.name should be of length 1 (value is reused) or equal
length as number of variables in data set."
)
}
dd[, "form_name"] <- form.name
if (length(field.type) > 1 & length(field.type) != ncol(ds)) {
stop(
"Provided field.type should be of length 1 (value is reused) or equal
length as number of variables in data set."
)
}
dd[, "field_type"] <- field.type
if (is.null(field.label)) {
dd[, "field_label"] <- dd[, "field_name"]
} else
dd[, "field_label"] <- field.label
if (include.column.names){
list("DataDictionary"=dd,"Column names"=field.name)
} else dd
}