Encodes column(s) from pData into character values

Source: R/entity-attribute-value.R

This function is not exported, and should only be called from within the as.EAVtable() function because we rely on validity checks that are happening there.

eav_encode(dat, covariate_def, varname)

Arguments

dat

the vector to values to encode into an EAV table
covariate_def

the single-list-definition of this covariate
vname

the name of the attribute column in the eav table

Value

a four-column data.frame (dataset,sample_id,variable,value) with the encoded covariate into a single value column.