Missing 'Data Group' in the tables metadata should be retrieved from nhanesManifest(variables)

[rsgoncalves]

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[rsgoncalves]

Actually nhanesManifest(variables) does not specify a data group for the tables that are missing that detail. The missing data groups were hardcoded by inspecting each one individually. Those tables that did not fit into one of the four data groups were categorized as "Documentation", such as DOC_2000, FOODLK_C and other lookup tables, etc.

[rgentlem]

ok - but what are you expecting from those tables? They are documentation - they are not actual data tables (in the sense they do not contain information about a person or set of people), they tell an analyst how to deal with the different variables - eg drug lists or nutrients to commonly eaten foods. I don't think they would go into our nhanesVariables or other tables ...

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[rsgoncalves]

These tables are now included in the metadata as Deepayan identified that they exist in the Database but not in the metadata table (#11). (They are acquired using nhanesManifest().)

Some of the tables that were missing a data-group (e.g., DRXFCD_I and YDQ) I think should have regular data groups (Dietary, Questionnaire, etc.) but they are missing those details in nhanesA outputs. Others, as you said, seem to be documentation tables. But since they are all included in the database, for now our goal was to have those same tables listed/described in the metadata. If they are not useful tables, we should probably discuss removing them from the database altogether.