Read an archived data package into R as a list object (THIS FUNCTION IS DEPRECATED. PLEASE USE data_package_download() and data_package_read() INSTEAD.)

Source: R/read_data_archived.R

This function downloads and reads a data package available in the DataONE network to the R environment as a list object.

read_data_archived(data.pkg.doi, download.dir = NULL)

Arguments

data.pkg.doi

(character) DOI of a data package available in the DataONE network (e.g. "doi:10.18739/A2DP3X").
download.dir

(character) Directory to which the data package will be downloaded. Default is paste0(tempdir(), '/data_package')

Value

(data package) Data package objects (as rendered by metajam) in the download directory. (list of data objects) List of data objects created by metajam. Readable data objects are defined by in the metajam package. Tabular data is read into tibbles.

Details

This function is a wrapper to the download_d1_data_pkg() and read_d1_data_pkg() functions of the metajam package, but configured to output a list object usable by this project.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Download data package to temporary directory and read
output <- read_data_archived(data.pkg.doi = 'doi:10.18739/A2DP3X')

# View data package content
View(output)
# }