Access Methods from Unified Database — boilerplate

This function extracts and returns the methods portion of a unified database, optionally retrieving a specific method by name.

Usage

boilerplate_methods(unified_db, name = NULL)

Arguments

unified_db: List. The unified boilerplate database
name: Character. Optional specific method to retrieve using dot notation

Value

List or character. The requested methods database or specific method

Examples

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

# Initialise with default methods content
boilerplate_init(
  categories = "methods",
  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 methods
methods_db <- boilerplate_methods(unified_db)
names(methods_db)
#> [1] "sample"             "causal_assumptions" "statistical"       

# Get a specific method using dot notation (if it exists)
if ("statistical" %in% names(methods_db) &&
    "longitudinal" %in% names(methods_db$statistical) &&
    "lmtp" %in% names(methods_db$statistical$longitudinal)) {
  lmtp_method <- boilerplate_methods(unified_db, "statistical.longitudinal.lmtp")
}

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