Describe the type of a value the way rdantic names types

Length is part of the description, because in R it is part of the type: int[1] and int[3] are different shapes with different bugs.

Usage

type_of(x)

Arguments

x

Any R value.

Value

A single string, e.g. "int[3]", "<User>", "data.frame[2 x 3]".

Examples

type_of(1:3)
#> [1] "int[3]"
type_of(1.5)
#> [1] "num[1]"
type_of("a")
#> [1] "chr[1]"
type_of(Sys.Date())
#> [1] "date[1]"
type_of(data.frame(a = 1:2))
#> [1] "data.frame[2 x 1]"
type_of(NULL)
#> [1] "NULL"