literal: Construct a literal
In vsenderov/rdf4r: Library for Working with RDF

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples

literal constructs a literal object.

1	literal(text_value, xsd_type, lang)

`text_value`	`character` The textual value of literal.
`xsd_type`	`identifier` The XSD type.
`lang`	`character` The language code.

If for some reason the supplied text value is meaningless (empty string, just spaces, invalid type, etc.), the returned object is the equivalent of NA

a literal object, which is a list with the following fields:

text_value character The textual value of literal.
xsd_type identifier The XSD type.
lang character The language code.
squote character The value with added quotes and types, e.g. "'John'^^xsd:string"

Other literal functions: is.literal, print.literal, represent.literal

lking_lear = literal(text_value = "King Lear", lang = "en")
lshakespeare = literal(text_value = "Shakespeare")
l1599 = literal(text_value = "1599", xsd_type = xsd_integer)

lking_lear
lshakespeare
l1599

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