categories_for_level

data table object as returned from <code>get_cansim()</code>

data

the quoted name of the column to extract categories from

column_name

the hierarchy level depth to which to extract categories, where 0 is top category

level

(default <code>FALSE</code>) when <code>TRUE</code> will only extract that specific hierarchy level

strict

(default <code>TRUE</code>) When set to <code>TRUE</code> higher level grouping categories already captured by lower level hierarchy data will be removed

remove_duplicates

For tables with data with hierarchical categories, metadata containing hierarchy level descriptions is used to extract categories at a specified level of hierarchy only.

Searches for, accesses, and retrieves new-format and old-format Statistics Canada data
tables, as well as individual vectors, as tidy data frames. This package deals with encoding issues, allows for
bilingual English or French language data retrieval, and bundles convenience functions
to make it easier to work with retrieved table data. Optional caching features are provided.

categories_for_level: Use metadata to extract categories for column of specific level

Description

Usage

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