In the web application, variables in a dataset are displayed in a list on the left side of the screen.
Typically, when you import a dataset, the variable list is flat, but it can be organized into an accordion-like hierarchy. The variable organizer in the GUI allows you to perform this organization visually, but you can also manage this metadata from crunch
.
Picking up with the dataset we used in the Array Variables vignette, we can fetch the ordering
property of the dataset to view the current organization:
ordering(ds)