vector of types from column names, in order

csvs/sheets created to specs may not be in order of specification, but we want to get the col types in order that the sheet is actually in This get the colum types in the order the columns appear in the spreadsheet that is read (in case columns are re-ordered) by checking one by one requires the a spec data frame that must have columns named col_name and col_type

Usage

get_col_type_from_spec(col_name, spec)

Arguments

col_name

character, vector of column names from the data to look up the formats

spec

data.frame of specification with columns 'col_name' to match, and 'col_type

Value

character vector of column types