Adds a user-defined attribute to data items in a FAME database. Data
items in a FAME database can have up to 20 user-defined attributes of
each of 6 types. Before you can set an item's blah attribute,
the database itself must know about the attribute. This function
defines the attribute to the database, so that fameSetAttribute
can set it.
fameAddAttribute(name, type = c("string", "date", "boolean",
"precision", "numeric", "namelist"),
db)name of the attribute
one of the six predefined types. Note that FAME "precision" series are 64-bit doubles, while FAME "numeric" items are 32-bit floats.
string giving the relative or full path to the Fame database to read
or write from. If the fameLocalPath() function is defined, it
will be called on this argument to obtain a path.
invisibly returns a character vector of whatever FAME wrote to standard output or standard error while attempting the assignment.
fameSetAttribute to set attributes once they've been defined.