get_table_from: Extracts a single table from a CLDF dataset.

In SimonGreenhill/rcldf: Read Linguistic Data in the Cross Linguistic Data Format (CLDF)

Extracts a single table from a CLDF dataset.

Description

Extracts a single table from a CLDF dataset.

Usage

get_table_from(
  table,
  mdpath,
  cache_dir = tools::R_user_dir("rcldf", which = "cache")
)

Arguments

table	a CLDF table type
mdpath	a path to a CLDF file
cache_dir	a directory to cache downloaded files to

Value

a dataframe

Examples

md_json <- system.file("extdata/huon", "cldf-metadata.json", package = "rcldf")
df <- get_table_from("LanguageTable", md_json)

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