An R package to extend the functionality of data.frame and data.frame-like objects with metadata and codebook annotations.
Metadata is not easily accessed and used in R and this is a big challenge to the efforts to make data analysis more automated and more reproducible. This package seeks to create a simple object-type for easily storing, updating, and outputting metadata during the course of an analysis project. This way the codebook can be baked right into the code.
metaframe is organized around [a meta.data object][1]. This is an S4 object
that stores lists of attributes for a data set. The package will also contain a
small set of basic functions to package a data.frame and a meta.data object
together, while retaining the functionality of a data.frame with some additional
enhancements.
metaframe organizes your meta.data into a few categories -- some of which it
can helpfully auto-complete for you.
library(metaframe)
doco <- document(airquality)[1]: The object is deliberately named with a period, meta.data, to avoid
confusion when rendering HTML documents, mimic the formatting of data.frame,
and to make searching for this specific implementation of metadata in R easier.