pd_provenance: Where a version came from

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Where a version came from

Description

The record kept with every version: the publisher's file it was read from, with its address, name, size and SHA-256, when it was fetched, the licence as the publisher stated it and when that was read, and the rows and fields it holds. It answers "where did this number come from" for a reviewer.

Usage

pd_provenance(slug, version = NULL)

Arguments

slug	The dataset's slug, as in its page URL 'https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/'.
version	A version date from [pd_versions()]. The newest when 'NULL'.

Value

A list of class ‘pd_provenance', the version’s 'manifest.json'.

See Also

Other metadata: pd_attribution(), pd_changes(), pd_cite(), pd_fields(), pd_latest(), pd_schema(), pd_tables()

Examples

pd_provenance("au-road-deaths")

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