Build Tabular Data Dictionaries

Translates a list object converted from an mdEditor mdJSON data dictionary file into a data frame.

Usage

build.table(x, entity_num)

Arguments

x

List object converted from an mdJSON file.

entity_num

Default=1. Integer indicating the entity if there is more than one in the mdJSON file.

y

Data frame of a dataset.

Value

Returns a data frame corresponding to the mdJSON data dictionary.

See also

build.mdJSON()

Examples

# Import mdJSON data dictionary as list
path<-system.file("extdata", "e.g.dictionary2.json", package = "mdJSONdictio")
input.list <- rjson::fromJSON(file = path)

# Translate list to data frame
new.table<- mdJSONdictio::build.table(x = input.list, entity_num = 1)

# Export table to disk
write.csv(x = new.table, file = "e.g.dictionary2.csv", na="", row.names = FALSE)