validate (version 1.1.5)

check_that: Simple data validation interface

Description

Simple data validation interface

Usage

check_that(dat, ...)

Value

An object of class validation

Arguments

dat

an R object carrying data

...

a comma-separated set of validating expressions.

Details

Creates an object of class validator and confronts it with the data. This function is easy to use in combination with the magrittr pipe operator.

See Also

Other validation-methods: aggregate,validation-method, all,validation-method, any,validation-method, barplot,validation-method, compare(), confront(), event(), names<-,rule,character-method, plot,validation-method, sort,validation-method, summary(), validation-class, values()

Examples

cf <- check_that(women, height>0, height/weight < 0.5)
cf
summary(cf)
barplot(cf)


if (FALSE) {
# this works only after loading the 'magrittr' package
women %>% 
  check_that(height>0, height/weight < 0.5) %>%
  summary()
}