Retrieve the meta information about a covariate for EAV decoding

Source: R/entity-attribute-value.R

Mappings that define attribute-value encodings into R-native objects are stored in a FacileDataSet's meta.yaml file, in the sample_covariate section.

covariate_meta_info(covariate, .fds, covdefs = NULL)

Arguments

covariate

the name of the covariate
.fds

the FacileDataSet
covdefs

The covariate_definitions(.fds) list

Value

a list of covariate information with the following elements: $name, $type, $class, $description, $label, $is.factor, (and maybe $levels)