ingest_header reads in header information from datasets that were created using ingest_*. The dataset must have been ingested within the same R session. All ingest functions use the source file's base name as an identifying column to track provenance and relate data and metadata read from files.

ingest_header(input.source)

Arguments

input.source

Character indicating the source file, must match the input.source used to originally ingest the data

Value

This function returns a dataframe containing the header information for the file. Refer to the help page for ingest_* for more information.

Details

All ingest_* functions for data files that include header data write that data to a temporary file. This header data can then be loaded and manipulated by the user using ingest_header.

Examples

if (FALSE) { campbell_file <- system.file("example_data", "campbell_scientific_tao5.dat", package = "ingestr") cs_data <- ingest_campbell(input.source = campbell_file) cs_header <- ingest_header(input.source = campbell_file) }