Infer a Simple Column Schema

Infers coarse variable types and clustering roles for a structured data frame.

Usage

infer_schema(data, id_column = NULL, ordinal_columns = NULL)

Arguments

data

A validated data frame or raw input table.

id_column

Optional identifier column name.

ordinal_columns

Optional character vector of columns to force as ordinal.

Value

A data frame describing the inferred schema.

Examples

dat <- simulate_mixed_data(n = 20, k = 2, seed = 1)
schema <- infer_schema(dat, id_column = "sample_id")
schema[, c("column_name", "type", "role")]
#>   column_name       type   role
#> 1   sample_id    nominal     id
#> 2         age continuous active
#> 3       score continuous active
#> 4      smoker     binary active
#> 5       stage    ordinal active
#> 6     subtype    nominal active