Apply Metadata and Variable Roles to an R Database — apply_database

Synchronizes updated metadata (such as variable labels, dataset descriptions, database names, and variable roles) back into a database list or data frame.

Usage

apply_database_metadata(db, metadata)

Arguments

db: A named list of data frames (an R database) or a single data frame.
metadata: A data frame/tibble of metadata containing columns columns and optionally dataset_name, labels, dataset_label, database_name, role, X_var, Y_var, ID_var, Time_var.

Value

The modified database or data frame with attributes and labels updated.

Examples

db <- list(demo = data.frame(id = 1:2, age = c(20, 30)))
meta <- get_dataset_info(db)
meta$labels[meta$columns == "age"] <- "Age at Enrollment (years)"
db <- apply_database_metadata(db, meta)