select_metadata allows users to retrieve the value of a specific field or fields of a given variable, or the entire variable metadata if no field is specified
select_metadata(variable_name = NULL, fields = NULL, returnDataFrame = TRUE)
variable_name | name of variable |
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fields | specific field or list of fields of variable to be accessed. See details for valid field names |
returnDataFrame | optional paramater set to TRUE by default, output is named list if set to FALSE |
returns string with value of a given field if field is specified, returns all metadata for variable as data frame if field is unspecified
List of valid field names:
data_source
data_type
group_id
group_subid
id
label
leaf
name
old_name
respondent
responses
scope
section
topic
umbrella
warning
wave
select1 <- select_metadata(variable_name = "ce3agefc") select2 <- select_metadata(variable_name = "ce3agefc", fields = "data_type") select3 <- select_metadata(variable_name = "ce3agefc", fields = c("data_type", "data_source"))