glottospace (version 0.0.112)

glottocreate: Generate empty glottodata or glottosubdata for a set of glottocodes.

Description

Creates glottodata/glottosubdata and optionally save it as excel file.

Usage

glottocreate(
  glottocodes,
  variables,
  meta = TRUE,
  filename = NULL,
  simplify = TRUE,
  groups = NULL,
  n = NULL,
  levels = NULL,
  check = FALSE,
  maintainer = NULL,
  email = NULL,
  citation = NULL,
  url = NULL
)

Arguments

glottocodes

Character vector of glottocodes

variables

Either a vector with variable names, or a single number indicating the total number of variable columns to be generated

meta

Should metatables be created?

filename

Optional name of excel file where to store glottodata

simplify

By default, if a glottodata table is created without metadata, the data will be returned as a data.frame (instead of placing the data inside a list of length 1)

groups

Character vector of group names (only for glottosubdata)

n

Optional, number of records to be assigned to each group (only for glottosubdata)

levels

Optional character vector with levels across all variables

check

Should glottocodes be checked? Default is FALSE because takes much time to run.

maintainer

Name of the person/organization maintaining the data (optional)

email

Email address of maintainer/contact person (optional)

citation

How to cite the data (optional)

url

Optional url linking to a webpage.

Value

A glottodata or glottosubdata object (either with or without metadata). The output can be a list or a data.frame.

Details

By default, glottodata will be created. In case a groups argument is provided, glottosubdata will be created.

glottodata has one table for all languages (and a number of metatables if meta = TRUE), with one row per glottocode. glottosubdata has one table for each language (and a number of metatables if meta = TRUE), with one row per glottosubcode.

Run glottoget("demodata") or glottoget("demosubdata") to see examples.

In case you already have your own dataset and want to convert it into glottodata, use: glottoconvert().

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Creates glottodata table without metadata tables
glottocreate(glottocodes = c("yucu1253", "tani1257"),
variables = 3, meta = FALSE)

# Creates glottodata table with metadata tables (stored in a list):
glottocreate(glottocodes = c("yucu1253", "tani1257"), variables = 3)


# Creates glottosubdata table (stored in a list)
glottocreate(glottocodes = c("yucu1253", "tani1257"),
variables = 3, groups = c("a", "b") )


# }