This function validates the contributors_table provided to it by checking whether the
provided contributors_table is compatible with the contributors_table_template(). The function
early escapes only if the provided contributors_table is not a dataframe, the variable
names that are present in the contributors_table_template is missing, or if the
contributors_table is empty.
Usage
validate_contributors_table(contributors_table, config_path)
Arguments
- contributors_table
dataframe, filled out contributors_table
Value
The function returns a list for each checked statement. Each list contains
a type vector that stores whether the statement passed the check "success"
or failed "warning" or "error", and a message vector that contains information
about the nature of the check.
The function checks the following statements
error, the provided contributors_table is not a dataframe
error, none of the outputs can be created based the provided contributors_table due to missing columns
error, the provided contributors_table is empty
