This function contains the general set of actions that are always used when recoding a source (e.g. check the input, document the justification, etc). Users should normally never call this function.
Usage
generic_recoding(
input,
codes,
func,
filenameRegex = ".*",
filter = TRUE,
output = NULL,
outputPrefix = "",
outputSuffix = "_recoded",
decisionLabel = NULL,
justification = NULL,
justificationFile = NULL,
preventOverwriting = rock::opts$get("preventOverwriting"),
encoding = rock::opts$get("encoding"),
silent = rock::opts$get("silent"),
...
)Arguments
- input
One of 1) a character string specifying the path to a file with a source; 2) an object with a loaded source as produced by a call to
load_source(); 3) a character string specifying the path to a directory containing one or more sources; 4) or an object with a list of loaded sources as produced by a call toload_sources().- codes
The codes to process
- func
The function to apply.
- filenameRegex
Only process files matching this regular expression.
- filter
Optionally, a filter to apply to specify a subset of the source(s) to process (see
get_source_filter()).- output
If specified, the coded source will be written here.
- outputPrefix, outputSuffix
The prefix and suffix to add to the filenames when writing the processed files to disk, in case multiple sources are passed as input.
- decisionLabel
A description of the (recoding) decision that was taken.
- justification
The justification for this action.
- justificationFile
If specified, the justification is appended to this file. If not, it is saved to the
justifier::workspace(). This can then be saved or displayed at the end of the R Markdown file or R script usingjustifier::save_workspace().- preventOverwriting
Whether to prevent overwriting existing files when writing the files to
output.- encoding
The encoding to use.
- silent
Whether to be chatty or quiet.
- ...
Other arguments to pass to
fnc.