activate_steps function

Activate one or more of an agent's validation steps

If certain validation steps need to be activated after the creation of the validation plan for an agent, use the activate_steps() function. This is equivalent to using the active = TRUE for the selected validation steps (active is an argument in all validation functions). This will replace any function that may have been defined for the active argument during creation of the targeted validation steps.

activate_steps(agent, i = NULL)

Arguments

• agent: The pointblank agent object

  obj:<ptblank_agent> // required

  A pointblank agent object that is commonly created through the use of the create_agent() function.

• i: A validation step number

  scalar<integer> // default: NULL (optional)

  The validation step number, which is assigned to each validation step in the order of definition. If NULL (the default) then step activation won't occur by index.

Returns

A ptblank_agent object.

Function ID

9-5

Examples

# Create an agent that has the
# `small_table` object as the
# target table, add a few inactive
# validation steps, and then use
# `interrogate()`
agent_1 <- 
  create_agent(
    tbl = small_table,
    tbl_name = "small_table",
    label = "An example."
  ) %>%
  col_exists(
    columns = date,
    active = FALSE
  ) %>%
  col_vals_regex(
    columns = b,
    regex = "[0-9]-[a-z]{3}-[0-9]{3}",
    active = FALSE
  ) %>%
  interrogate()

# In the above, the data is
# not actually interrogated
# because the `active` setting
# was `FALSE` in all steps; we
# can selectively change this
# with `activate_steps()`
agent_2 <-
  agent_1 %>%
  activate_steps(i = 1) %>%
  interrogate()

See Also

For the opposite behavior, use the deactivate_steps() function.

Other Object Ops: deactivate_steps(), export_report(), remove_steps(), set_tbl(), x_read_disk(), x_write_disk()