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Update data model attribute

attribute_update.Rd

Update data model attribute

Usage

attribute_update(
  data.model,
  name,
  default.val = NULL,
  default.fun = NULL,
  default.arg = NULL,
  skip = NULL,
  filter = NULL,
  sort.rank = NULL,
  sort.desc = NULL
)

Arguments

data.model

a data.frame containing the data model

name

a character string of the attribute name

default.val

a character string, the new default value

default.fun

a character string, the new default function name

default.arg

an optional named vector of arguments, to pass along with the default function.

skip

a logical to set the skip value

filter

a logical to set the filter value

sort.rank

a numeric, used to define sort rank

sort.desc

a logical, to define if sorting should be in descending order

Value

the updated data model

Details

Updating attribute class is not supported by this function (as it requires data migration).

Use of vector to update several attributes is supported as long as length of the different parameters is either same as name or 1 (then all rows gets same value).

See also

data_model()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
#Use of vector to update several attributes:
attribute_update(data.model = dm,
                 name = c("name","total"),
                 default.val = c("test", 2),
                 default.fun = NULL,
                 default.arg = NULL,
                 skip = TRUE)
} # }