Paste a list of blocks into a single block

This function uses paste to concatenate the same-location entries of a list of data.frames together (i.e. all the first row-first column values are pasted together, all the second row-first column values are pasted together, etc.)

Usage

paste_blocks(blocks, sep = "_", nested_metadata = NULL)

Arguments

blocks

Blocks, either a single data.frame or a list of data.frames

sep

string to use as separator for output pasted values

nested_metadata

A logical indicating the existence of nested metadata in the blockmeasures list, e.g. as is typically output by read_blocks. If NULL, will attempt to infer existence of nested metadata

Value

If nested_metadata = TRUE (or is inferred to be TRUE), a list containing a list containing: 1. a data.frame with the pasted data values from blocks, and 2. a vector with the pasted metadata values from blocks

If nested_metadata = FALSE (or is inferred to be FALSE), a list containing data.frame's with the pasted values from blocks