R: Simple data validation interface

check_that {validate} | R Documentation

## Simple data validation interface

### Description

Simple data validation interface

### Usage

    check_that(dat, ...)

### Arguments

`dat` | an R object carrying data
`...` | a comma-separated set of validating expressions.

### Value

An object of class `validation`

### Details

Creates an object of class `validator` and `confront`s it with the data. This function is easy to use in combination with the magrittr pipe operator.

### See Also

Other validation-methods: `aggregate,validation-method`, `all,validation-method`, `any,validation-method`, `barplot,validation-method`, `compare`, `confront`, `plot,validation-method`, `sort,validation-method`, `summary`, `validation-class`, `values`

### Examples

    cf <- check_that(women, height>0, height/weight < 0.5)
    cf
    summary(cf)
    barplot(cf)

    ## Not run:
    # this works only after loading the 'magrittr' package
    women %>%
      check_that(height>0, height/weight < 0.5) %>%
      summary()

    ## End(Not run)

[Package validate version 0.2.6 Index]