Entity-attribute-value decoding for real values. — eav_decode

This is a simple function to handle converting numeric values in the EAV table to numeric data in R.

This is essentially a pass through-function for categorical/character values in the EAV table. If the def list contains a levels entry, then the returned value is converted to a factor, with the levels in the order as defined in def$levels. If more levels appear in x than exist in def$levels they are appended to the end of the factor levels in alphabetical order. If more levels are defined in def$levels than appear in x, they are by default dropped, set droplevels = FALSE to keep them.

eav_decode_real(x, attrname = character(), def = list(), ...)

eav_encode_real(x, ...)

eav_encode_logical(x, ...)

eav_decode_logical(x, attrname = character(), def = list(), ...)

eav_encode_cSurv(x, ...)

eav_decode_cSurv(x, attrname = character(), def = list(), ...)

eav_decode_categorical(
  x,
  attrname = character(),
  def = list(),
  droplevels = TRUE,
  ...
)

eav_encode_categorical(x, ...)

Arguments

x	the values column from the `EAV` table for this covariate
attrname	the name of "attribute" (covariate) in the EAV table.
def	the `covariate_definition` list for this covariate

Value

a numeric vector of length(x)