read_file_metadata: Read File Metadata from YAML-File

In KWB-R/kwb.file: Functions Related to File and Path Operations

Description

Read File Metadata from YAML-File

Usage

read_file_metadata(
  yaml_file,
  file_encoding = "UTF-8",
  out_class = c("data.frame", "list")[1]
)

Arguments

yaml_file	path to YAML-File containing file metadata (as saved with kwb.file:::write_file_info_to_yaml_file)
file_encoding	passed to argument fileEncoding of read_yaml
out_class	one of "data.frame", "list"

Value

depending on out_class, either a data frame with the following columns or a list with the following elements is returned:

file_id

clean file name given to the original file for simpler access,

original_name

original file name given by data provider,

original_folder

original path to folder in which file was provided.

KWB-R/kwb.file documentation built on Dec. 31, 2021, 8:15 p.m.