create_entity: Create EML entity list object.

In atn38/metabase-to-eml-R: Create Ecological Metadata Language From LTER Core Metabase

Create EML entity list object.

Description

Use to examine entity list structure or troubleshoot invalid EML, or to put together custom entity lists. Use create_entity_all for common EML generation usage, which loops this function over all entities listed in a dataset under the hood.

Usage

create_entity(
  meta_list,
  file_dir = getwd(),
  dataset_id,
  entity,
  skip_checks = FALSE
)

Arguments

meta_list	(character) A list of dataframes containing metadata returned by get_meta.
file_dir	(character) Path to directory containing flat files (data files). Defaults to current R working directory. Note: if there's information on "entityrecords", "filesize", "filesize_units", and "checksum" columns in the entities table in metabase, there is no need for reading the actual files, so this field can stay NULL.
dataset_id	(numeric) A dataset ID.
entity	(numeric) An entity number.
skip_checks	(logical) Whether to skip checking for attribute congruence. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

(list) A list object containing one data entity.

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