kutils (version 0.93)

keyDiff: Compares a key provided to keyUpdate with the return of keyUpdate

Description

Compares a key provided to keyUpdate with the return of keyUpdate

Usage

keyDiff(oldkey, newkey)

Arguments

oldkey

key that was provided to keyUpdate function

newkey

updated key returned by keyUpdate function

Value

summary of differences between the two keys

Examples

library(rockchalk)
dat1 <- data.frame("Score" = c(1, 2, 3, 42, 4, 2),
                   "Gender" = c("M", "M", "M", "F", "F", "F"))
## First try with a long key
key1 <- keyTemplate(dat1, long = TRUE)
key1[5, "value_new"] <- 10
key1[6, "value_new"] <- "female"
key1[7, "value_new"] <- "male"
key1[key1$name_old == "Score", "name_new"] <- "NewScore"
dat2 <- data.frame("Score" = 7, "Gender" = "other", "Weight" = rnorm(3))
dat2 <- plyr::rbind.fill(dat1, dat2)
dat2 <- dat2[-1,]
key2 <- keyUpdate(key1, dat2, append = TRUE)
keyDiff(key1, key2)