heterogeneous_recombinator {recombinator}

Process heterogeneous batch data.

Description

This function turns a list of data obtained from the Avant API in heterogeneous format into a data.frame. Here, heterogeneous refers to a list of lists with each element being of possibly different size, but a complete named list of the data for that row.

Usage

heterogeneous_recombinator(dat, id = "id")

Arguments

dat

list. The list of lists to process. Each row is a named list with the names being variable names and the values being respective variable values.

id

character. Primary key, by default "id".

Details

For example, list(list(variable_one = 1, variable_two = 'a'), list(variable_one = 2, variable_three = 1)) refers to a data set with three variables with two rows, the first variable having c(1,2), the second c('a', NA), and the third c(NA, 1).

If the list of lists is not formatted in this way, the function performs no error handling and will likely return a malformed data.frame.

Value

the formatted data.frame

Examples

pre_dataframe <-
  list(list(variable_one = 1, variable_two = 'a'),
       list(variable_one = 2, variable_three = 1))
df <- heterogeneous_recombinator(pre_dataframe)
# 3 by 2 dataframe w/ c(1,2), c('a', NA), c(NA, 1) in the columns, respectively.