add_name_to_statistics {atable}

add_name_to_statistics

Description

add a column to a data.frame x with value name as character. Helper Function. Not intended to be called by the user.

Usage

add_name_to_statistics(x, name, ...)

## S3 method for class 'list'
add_name_to_statistics(x, name, ...)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
add_name_to_statistics(
  x,
  name,
  colname_for_variable = atable_options("colname_for_variable"),
  ...
)

Arguments

x

an object

name

a value

...

passed to methods

colname_for_variable

a character length 1. Default is defined in atable_options

Details

checks if the new field already exists

Value

x now with new field colname_for_variable

Methods (by class)

• add_name_to_statistics(list): apply add_name_to_statistics to all field of the list

• add_name_to_statistics(data.frame): add field colname_for_variable to the data.frame. chekc for a name clash as this field as there are many user-defined fields