create_dictionary {datadictionary}

Create a data dictionary from any dataset

Description

Create a data dictionary from any dataset

Usage

create_dictionary(dataset, id_var = NULL, file = NULL, var_labels = NULL)

Arguments

dataset

The dataset you wish to summarise

id_var

A variable/vector of variables that are identifiers (optional)

file

The file path to write an Excel spreadsheet (optional)

var_labels

A named vector of variable labels (optional)

Value

Either an Excel spreadsheet or a dataframe

Examples

 # A simple dictionary printed to console
 create_dictionary(esoph)

 # You can specify id variable/s
 mtcars$id <- 1:nrow(mtcars)
 create_dictionary(mtcars, id_var = "id")

 # You can also specify labels with a named vector
 iris.labels <- c(Sepal.Length = "Sepal length in mm",
     Sepal.Width = "Sepal width in mm",
     Petal.Length = "Petal length in mm",
     Petal.Width = "Petal width in mm",
     Species = "Species of iris")
 create_dictionary(iris, var_labels = iris.labels)