Get provenance from a survey or workflow result

Returns the provenance metadata recording the full data lineage: source file, step history with row counts, and environment info.

Usage

provenance(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'Survey'
provenance(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'data.table'
provenance(x, ...)

# Default S3 method
provenance(x, ...)

Arguments

x

A Survey object or a data.table from workflow().

...

Additional arguments (unused).

Value

A metasurvey_provenance list, or NULL if no provenance is available.

See also

Other provenance: print.metasurvey_provenance(), print.metasurvey_provenance_diff(), provenance_diff(), provenance_to_json()

Examples

svy <- Survey$new(
  data = data.table::data.table(id = 1:10, age = 20:29, w = 1),
  edition = "2023", type = "test", psu = NULL,
  engine = "data.table", weight = add_weight(annual = "w")
)
provenance(svy)
#> ── Data Provenance ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> Loaded: 2026-02-25T12:01:00 
#> Initial rows: 10 
#> 
#> Environment:
#>   metasurvey: 0.0.21 
#>   R: 4.5.2 
#>   survey: 4.5