Access Discussion Content — boilerplate

This function extracts and returns the discussion portion of a unified database, optionally retrieving a specific discussion section by name using dot notation.

Usage

boilerplate_discussion(unified_db, name = NULL)

Arguments

unified_db: List. The unified boilerplate database containing discussion content
name: Character. Optional specific discussion section to retrieve using dot notation (e.g., "limitations.statistical" for nested content)

Value

List or character. The requested discussion database or specific section. If name is NULL, returns the entire discussion database. If name is specified, returns the content at that path.

Details

Access Discussion from Unified Database

Examples

# Create a temporary directory and initialise database
temp_dir <- tempdir()
data_path <- file.path(temp_dir, "boilerplate_discussion_example", "data")

# Initialise with default discussion content
boilerplate_init(
  categories = "discussion",
  data_path = data_path,
  create_dirs = TRUE,
  create_empty = FALSE,
  confirm = FALSE,
  quiet = TRUE
)

# Import all databases
unified_db <- boilerplate_import(data_path = data_path, quiet = TRUE)

# Get all discussion sections
discussion_db <- boilerplate_discussion(unified_db)
names(discussion_db)
#> [1] "limitations"       "future_directions" "implications"     

# Get a specific discussion section (if it exists)
if ("discussion" %in% names(unified_db) && length(unified_db$discussion) > 0) {
  section_names <- names(unified_db$discussion)
  if (length(section_names) > 0) {
    first_section <- boilerplate_discussion(unified_db, section_names[1])
  }
}

# Clean up
unlink(file.path(temp_dir, "boilerplate_discussion_example"), recursive = TRUE)