Feature request: data dictionary

[Aariq]

Maybe this is outside the scope of the package, but I often start analyses by defining the variables in a dataframe. Similar to the table function, a function could turn the colnames of a dataframe or tibble into a list something like this:

+ `Sepal.Length` (numeric): description
+ `Sepal.Width` (numeric): description
+ `Petal.Length` (numeric): description
+ `Petal.Width` (numeric): description
+ `Species` (factor): description

[Aariq]

I wrote some code that implements this. When nothing is selected, it inserts:

data_frame: <description>

• col1 (type):
• col2 (type):
• col3 (type):

With a selection, if it is a data.frame, it inserts:

gapminder: <description>

• country (factor):
• continent (factor):
• year (integer):
• lifeExp (numeric):
• pop (integer):
• gdpPercap (numeric):

I'm still not sure if this is really in the scope of this package, but if you are interested I can make a PR.