Loading reproducibility data

This function loads reproducibility meta data from a file and stores the meta information about the variable contents in the specified environment. Reproducibility meta data can be loaded from either a json (preferred) or a binary saved R object. The function returns a named list with meta information restored from file. The named elements include "hashing" indicating whether a hashing algorithm was used, "hashing_algorithm" indicating the name of the hashing algorithm, "hashing_package" indicating the name of the R package, from which the hashing algorithm was used, "hashing_package_version" indicating the package version, "digits" the numeric precision used before hashing numeric values, and "code_fingerprint" the actual hashed string of the chunk code.

Usage

load_repro_data(filename, envir, filetype = c("json", "rda"))

Arguments

filename

Character. File name to load objects from.

envir

Environment to load the objects into. By default, this is the global environment.

filetype

Character. Currently supported is json and rda.

Value

Returns a named list with meta information restored from file. See description for more details.

See also

save_repro_data()