Prepare atomic

This is a thin wrapper for jsonlite::unbox. It stops jsonlite from representing single character, numeric, logical, etc. items as arrays.

Usage

prep_atomic(x)

Arguments

x

vector or single row data frame

Value

an unboxed dataframe with 1 row

Details

This is useful when a property or definition is of type string, number, logical and of length 1.

See also

Other JSON Prep: clean_field_names(), get_entity(), prep_affiliation(), prep_array_objects(), prep_creators(), prep_data(), prep_descriptions(), prep_for_json(), prep_from_metadata_template(), prep_fundingReferences(), prep_identifier(), prep_language(), prep_methodology(), prep_methods(), prep_nameIdentifiers(), prep_object(), prep_publicationYear(), prep_relatedIdentifiers(), prep_rights(), prep_subjects(), prep_titles()

Examples

x <- 1

# values in x are stored in an array
x |>
  jsonlite::toJSON()
#> [1] 
# output is [1]

# values in x are NOT stored in an array (no square brackets)
prep_atomic(x) |>
  jsonlite::toJSON()
#> 1 
# output is 1