table handling in custom analyses

[zackgalbreath]

There are two different use cases for how we handle tables within R scripts:

1. Strip off the metadata and apply some operation to the numerical contents of a table. (scalar addition example)
2. Use the whole table, metadata and all. (geiger model fitting example)

How do we determine what the script intends? Right now this is what we have within our .xml description file:

<input name="input_table" type="Table"/>

Should it we do something silly like type="TableKeepMetaData" and type="TableStripMetaData"? Any better ideas?