Get the agent's x-list

The agent's x-list is a record of information that the agent possesses at any given time. The x-list will contain the most complete information after an interrogation has taken place (before then, the data largely reflects the validation plan). The x-list can be constrained to a particular validation step (by supplying the step number to the i argument), or, we can get the information for all validation steps by leaving i unspecified. The x-list is indeed an R list object that contains a veritable cornucopia of information.

For an x-list obtained with i specified for a validation step, the following components are available:

time_start: the time at which the interrogation began (POSIXct [0 or 1])
time_end: the time at which the interrogation ended (POSIXct [0 or 1])
label: the optional label given to the agent (chr [1])
tbl_name: the name of the table object, if available (chr [1])
tbl_src: the type of table used in the validation (chr [1])
tbl_src_details: if the table is a database table, this provides further details for the DB table (chr [1])
tbl: the table object itself
col_names: the table's column names (chr [ncol(tbl)])
col_types: the table's column types (chr [ncol(tbl)])
i: the validation step index (int [1])
type: the type of validation, value is validation function name (chr [1])
columns: the columns specified for the validation function (chr [variable length])
values: the values specified for the validation function (mixed types [variable length])
briefs: the brief for the validation step in the specified lang (chr [1])
eval_error, eval_warning: indicates whether the evaluation of the step function, during interrogation, resulted in an error or a warning (lgl [1])
capture_stack: a list of captured errors or warnings during step-function evaluation at interrogation time (list [1])
n: the number of test units for the validation step (num [1])
n_passed, n_failed: the number of passing and failing test units for the validation step (num [1])
f_passed: the fraction of passing test units for the validation step, n_passed / n (num [1])
f_failed: the fraction of failing test units for the validation step, n_failed / n (num [1])
warn, stop, notify: a logical value indicating whether the level of failing test units caused the corresponding conditions to be entered (lgl [1])
lang: the two-letter language code that indicates which language should be used for all briefs, the agent report, and the reporting generated by the scan_data() function (chr [1])

If i is unspecified (i.e., not constrained to a specific validation step) then certain length-one components in the x-list will be expanded to the total number of validation steps (these are: i, type, columns, values, briefs, eval_error, eval_warning, capture_stack, n, n_passed, n_failed, f_passed, f_failed, warn, stop, and notify). The x-list will also have additional components when i is NULL, which are:

report_object: a gt table object, which is also presented as the default print method for a ptblank_agent
email_object: a blastula email_message object with a default set of components
report_html: the HTML source for the report_object, provided as a length-one character vector
report_html_small: the HTML source for a narrower, more condensed version of report_object, provided as a length-one character vector; The HTML has inlined styles, making it more suitable for email message bodies

Usage

get_agent_x_list(agent, i = NULL)

Arguments

agent: An agent object of class ptblank_agent.
i: The validation step number, which is assigned to each validation step in the order of invocation. If NULL (the default), the x-list will provide information for all validation steps. If a valid step number is provided then x-list will have information pertaining only to that step.

Value

A list object.

Examples

Create a simple data frame with a column of numerical values.

tbl <- dplyr::tibble(a = c(5, 7, 8, 5))

tbl

## # A tibble: 4 × 1
##       a
##   <dbl>
## 1     5
## 2     7
## 3     8
## 4     5

Create an action_levels() list with fractional values for the warn, stop, and notify states.

al <-
  action_levels(
    warn_at = 0.2,
    stop_at = 0.8,
    notify_at = 0.345
  )
  
al

## -- The `action_levels` settings
## WARN failure threshold of 0.2 of all test units.
## STOP failure threshold of 0.8 of all test units.
## NOTIFY failure threshold of 0.345 of all test units.
## ----

Create an agent (giving it the tbl and the al objects), supply two validation step functions, then interrogate.

agent <-
  create_agent(
    tbl = tbl,
    actions = al
  ) %>%
  col_vals_gt(columns = vars(a), value = 7) %>%
  col_is_numeric(columns = vars(a)) %>%
  interrogate()

Get the agent x-list.

x <- get_agent_x_list(agent)

x

## -- The x-list for table `tbl`
## ---- ALL STEPS ----
## $time_start $time_end (POSIXct [1])
## $label $tbl_name $tbl_src $tbl_src_details (chr [1])
## $tbl (tbl_df tbl data.frame)
## $col_names $col_types (chr [1])
## $i $type $columns $values $label $briefs (mixed [2])
## $eval_error $eval_warning (lgl [2])
## $capture_stack (list [2])
## $n $n_passed $n_failed $f_passed $f_failed (num [2])
## $warn $stop $notify (lgl [2])
## $validation_set (tbl_df [2, 35])
## $lang (chr [1])
## $report_object (blastula_message)
## $report_html $report_html_small (chr [1])
## ----

Get the f_passed component of the x-list x.

x$f_passed

## [1] 0.25 1.00

Function ID

8-1

Usage

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Value

Examples

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