Recordr-class: Capture, review and publish data provenance

In NCEAS/recordr: R Provenance Tracking

Description

The Recordr class provides methods to record, search, review and publish data provenance about R script executions. Information about files read and written by a script and the execution environment can be captured for each script execution. Script executions can then be reviewed and selected to be published to the DataONE data repository, by retrieving archived copies of the R script, the files read and written by a script and a description of the provenance relationships between objects in the run, which are then combined into a package and uploaded to the requested member node.

Slots

recordrDir

value of type "character" containing a path to the Recordr working directory

dbConn

A value of type "SQLiteConnection" that contains the connection of the recordr database

dbFile

A valof of type "character" that contains the location of the recordr database file

Methods

• initialize: Initialize a Recordr object

• startRecord: Begin recording provenance for an R session

• endRecord: Get the Identifiers of Package Members

• record: Get the data content of a specified data object

• listRuns: Output a list of recorded runs to the console

• viewRuns: Record relationships of objects in a DataPackage

• deleteRuns: Record derivation relationships between objects in a DataPackage

• publishRun: Upload all objects associated with a run to a repository

• traceRuns: Trace processing lineage by finding related executions.

• plotRuns: Trace processing lineage for a run and plot it.

See Also

recordr package description.

NCEAS/recordr documentation built on May 7, 2019, 5:59 p.m.