The bitfield package provides tools to record analytic and algorithmic meta data or just any ordinary values to store in a bitfield. A bitfield accompanies a (modelled) dataset and can give insight into data quality, provenance, and intermediate values, or can be used to store output values in a highly compressed form.
The general workflow consists of defining a registry, growing it by using the required bitfield operators, putting everything together to a bitfield, encoding this into an integer value that can be stored and published, or decoded and re-used in a downstream application.
Operators have four distinct types, based on the flags they grow.
binary operators, such as bf_na grow binary flags that
encode yes/no decisions,
case operators, such as bf_case grow flags that have
one less values than there are cases to encode,
count operators, such as bf_length grow flags that
encode the count integers and
numeric operators, such as bf_numeric grow binary
floating point flags according to the given precision of the floating point
encoding (for example 32 for single precision floating point values).
Github project: https://github.com/EhrmannS/bitfield
Report bugs: https://github.com/EhrmannS/bitfield/issues