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Is an Argument a Character Vector?

Source: R/assertions.R
assert_character_vector.Rd

Checks if an argument is a character vector

Usage

assert_character_vector(
  arg,
  values = NULL,
  named = FALSE,
  optional = FALSE,
  arg_name = rlang::caller_arg(arg),
  message = NULL,
  class = "assert_character_vector",
  call = parent.frame()
)

Arguments

arg

A function argument to be checked

values

A character vector of valid values for arg

named

If set to TRUE, an error is issued if not all elements of the vector are named.

optional

Is the checked argument optional? If set to FALSE and arg is NULL then an error is thrown

arg_name

string indicating the label/symbol of the object being checked.

message

string passed to cli::cli_abort(message). When NULL, default messaging is used (see examples for default messages). "{arg_name}" can be used in messaging.

class

Subclass of the condition.

call

The execution environment of a currently running function, e.g. call = caller_env(). The corresponding function call is retrieved and mentioned in error messages as the source of the error.

You only need to supply call when throwing a condition from a helper function which wouldn't be relevant to mention in the message.

Can also be NULL or a defused function call to respectively not display any call or hard-code a code to display.

For more information about error calls, see Including function calls in error messages.

Value

The function throws an error if arg is not a character vector or if any element is not included in the list of valid values. Otherwise, the input is returned invisibly.

See also

Checks for valid input and returns warning or errors messages: assert_atomic_vector(), assert_character_scalar(), assert_data_frame(), assert_date_vector(), assert_expr(), assert_expr_list(), assert_filter_cond(), assert_function(), assert_integer_scalar(), assert_list_element(), assert_list_of(), assert_logical_scalar(), assert_named(), assert_numeric_vector(), assert_one_to_one(), assert_param_does_not_exist(), assert_s3_class(), assert_same_type(), assert_symbol(), assert_unit(), assert_vars(), assert_varval_list()

Examples

example_fun <- function(chr) {
  assert_character_vector(chr)
}

example_fun(letters)

try(example_fun(1:10))
#> Error in example_fun(1:10) : 
#>   Argument `chr` must be <character>, but is an integer vector.

example_fun2 <- function(chr) {
  assert_character_vector(chr, named = TRUE)
}

try(example_fun2(c(alpha = "a", "b", gamma = "c")))
#> Error in example_fun2(c(alpha = "a", "b", gamma = "c")) : 
#>   All elements of `chr` argument must be named.
#> ℹ The indices of the unnamed elements are 2