updateMeta {eatGADS}

Update meta data.

Description

Update the meta data of a GADSdat or all_GADSdat object according to the variables in a new data object.

Usage

updateMeta(GADSdat, newDat, checkVarNames = TRUE)

Arguments

GADSdat

GADSdat or all_GADSdat object.

newDat

data.frame or list of data.frames with the modified data. tibbles and data.tables are currently not supported and need to be transformed to data.frames beforehand.

checkVarNames

Logical. Should new variable names be checked by checkVarNames?

Details

If the data of a GADSdat or a all_GADSdat has changed (supplied via newDat), updateMeta assimilates the corresponding meta data set. If variables have been removed, the corresponding meta data is also removed. If variables have been added, empty meta data is added for these variables. Factors are transformed to numerical and their levels added to the meta data set.

Value

Returns the original object with updated meta data (and removes factors from the data).

Examples

# see createGADS vignette