RSurvey (version 0.8-3)

EditData: Edit Data

Description

A GUI for viewing and editing table formatted data.

Usage

EditData(d, col.names = names(d), row.names = NULL, col.formats = NULL, read.only = FALSE, changelog = NULL, win.title = "Data", parent = NULL)

Arguments

d

list, matrix, or data.frame; the data used to populate the table.

col.names

character; a vector of column names.

row.names

character; a vector of row names.

col.formats

character; a vector of format conversion specification strings, see sprintf and strftime.

read.only

logical; specifies whether the table is in read only mode.

changelog

data.frame; history of all data table edits (see ‘Value’).

win.title

character; a string to display as the title of the dialog box.

parent

tkwin; the GUI parent window.

Value

NULL is returned if no edits were made; otherwise, new values of d and changelog are returned as components in a list. The changelog data frame contains the following variables:

timestamp

POSIXct; identifies when the edit event occurred.

record

character; row name.

variable

character; column name.

old

character; value before editing.

new

character; value after editing.

Details

Row titles are taken from the row names attribute of d. Pattern searches are performed using grep. Edits are reflected in the changelog.

See Also

BuildHistogram