Functions to check if an object is a keyvalue object, or coerce it if possible.
Usage
as.keyvalue(x, ...)
# S3 method for data.frame
as.keyvalue(x, standard_var_names = NULL, ...)
# S3 method for default
as.keyvalue(x, y, ...)
is.keyvalue(x)
Arguments
x
object to test for, or coerce to, keyvalue (see the details).
...
arguments passed between methods
standard_var_names
a character vector with standard names for variables decoded with this key-values.
y
a value vector if x is an unnamed vector (argument must be named 'y = .')
Value
as.keyvalue returns a data.frame with additional class keyvalue that fulfills the requirements
for a keyvalue object and with the key column as character. It also has two extra attributes
standard_var_names as described above and keyvalue11 which is TRUE for keyvalue objects
with a 1:1 relation between its keys and values (otherwise FALSE).
Details
x can be of:
a name of a package internal (or external) keyvalue object
(character of length one)
a data.frame with two columns "key" (with unique cells) and "value".