Write YAML/JSON metadata in a separate function?
andrewheiss opened this issue · 1 comments
Currently it's possible to write CSVY metadata data to a separate file instead of at the top of the CSV file with write_csvy(..., metadata = "path/to/metadata.yaml")
. This must be done in conjunction with writing a CSV file, though—write_csvy()
doesn't work unless you specify an output file for the CSV. It might be helpful to have a function like write_metadata()
that only writes the metadata without writing the CSV too.
For instance, I've run into an issue where I want to use readr::write_csv()
to write a CSV because of its NA handling options, speed, tidyverseability, etc., but I also want to include CSVY YAML metadata as a separate file to distribute along with it. My current solution is to write two CSV files—one with write_csv()
and one with write_csvy(..., metadata = "blah.yaml")
—and then delete the CSV created with write_csvy()
. But that's super roundabout and inefficient.
Totally doable - we'll just move the metadata-writing code from write_csvy()
into a separate function and export it.