RSurvey (version 0.6-1)

ManageData: Manage Data

Description

A GUI for managing, querying, and formatting data.

Usage

ManageData(cols, vars, parent = NULL)

Arguments

cols

list; see Value.

vars

list; see Value.

parent

tkwin; the parent window (optional).

Value

• Queries and sets the cols and vars components of Data. The cols object is a list whose length is equal to the current number of data variables. Each component in cols is linked to a specific variable, and contains the following components:
• name
  character; variable name.
• unit
  character; measurement units (optional); programmatic manipulation of measurement units is only supported for date and time variables.
• id
  character; a unique identifier that is typically created from a string concatenation of name and unit.
• fun
  character; the expression evaluated when computing the vector of values for a variable.
• index
  integer; the variables component index number in the data.raw data frame (see ImportData).
• class
  character; the class of the data vector object.
• digs
  integer; the precision of the variable, defined as the number of fractional digits or decimal places (optional).
• summary
  list; a summary of the variables descriptive statistics (see SummarizeData).
• comments
  character; user comments (optional).
• The vars object is a list with components:
• x, y, z, t, vx, vy
  integer; the index number of the corresponding state variable in cols.

Details

This GUI lets you: (1) specify the names, measurement units, and decimal precision of variables; (2) add new variables based on user defined functions (see EditFunction); and (3) remove and (or) reorder variables in the data table.

See Also

EditFunction

Examples

ManageData()