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Sieve Test Data Object Description
</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>The function for querying a <code>std</code> object for description meta data
or creating new description meta data list.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>
desc.std(Description = NA,
         Title = NA,
         Sample = NA,
         Unit = NA,
         Date = NA,
         x = NULL)
</pre>


<h3>Arguments</h3>

<table summary="R argblock">
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Description </code></td>
<td>
<p>Terse description of a sample</p>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Title </code></td>
<td>
<p>Title of particular measurement</p>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Sample </code></td>
<td>
<p>Name of the sample</p>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Unit </code></td>
<td>
<p>To which unit the sample belongs</p>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Date </code></td>
<td>
<p>Day when the sample was taken</p>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>x</code></td>
<td>
<p>An existing <code>std</code> object</p>
</td></tr>
</table>


<h3>Details</h3>

<p>To be used for creating input for <code>desc</code> argument in functions 
<code>std</code> and <code>tweak.std</code>.
</p>


<h3>Value</h3>

<p>Returns a list of 5:
</p>
<table summary="R valueblock">
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Description </code></td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Title </code></td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Sample </code></td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Unit </code></td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>Date </code></td>
<td>
</td></tr>
</table>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>std</code>
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
# create the object by hand
# sieve test data (std) object
my_sample &lt;- std(
a=c(500, 200, 90, 0),
r=c(1.01, 24, 42.8, 32.190),
desc=desc.std(Title="Coal powder, learning std")
)

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