properties {refreshr}

Analysing refreshr objects

Description

Checks if a dataframe/table is refreshable.

Usage

properties(df, property = NULL, silent = FALSE)

Arguments

df

Dataframe/table to be checked.

property

One-element Character vector describing the property thatto be queried. Either "load" for the load code (the code that refreshes data from the data source), "prep" for the data preparation code (of any), "source" for the data source (which properties() tries to identify from the load code), "lastrefresh" (the date/timestamp of the last refresh of the dataframe/table). If no property is selected (property == NULL, the default) then all properties are included in the output to the screen.

silent

If silent the function will return (invisibly) the property defined by property without making any outputs on the screen. Default is FALSE.

Value

if property == NULL, i.e. all properties are queried, then NULL is returned. Otherwise properties() returns the value of the selected property.

Examples

## Not run: 

library(data.table)
library(dplyr)

# Load US unemployment rate from Bureau of Labor Statistics
data <- fread("https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ln/ln.data.1.AllData", sep="\t")

# Make refreshable and specify code for data preparation (filter raw data for
# the overall US employment rate) with # being a placeholder for the downloaded
# raw data
data_refresh <- make_refreshable(data,
                     load_code = "data.table::fread(
                        \"https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ln/ln.data.1.AllData\",
                        sep=\"\t\")",
                     prep_code = "filter(#, series_id==\"LNS14000000\")")
                     #'
# Save refreshable dataframe as RData file (e.g. to share dataset with coworkers or public)
save(data_refresh, file = "refresh.RData")

# Remove dataframe and reload it from file
rm(data_refresh)
load(file = "refresh.RData")

# Refresh the dataframe
data_refresh <- refresh(data_refresh)

# Show properties of refreshable dataframe
properties(data_refresh)

# Check if refreshable dataframe is up-to-date with the remote data source
uptodate(data_refresh)

## End(Not run)