provenance: Get or update provenance information
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provenance

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Get or update provenance information

Description

Retrieve or append provenance statements (in N<U+2011>Triples form) stored on a dataset_df() object.

Usage

provenance(x)

provenance(x) <- value

Arguments

`x`	A dataset created with `dataset_df()`.
`value`	Character vector of N<U+2011>Triples created by `n_triple()` or `n_triples()` to append to existing provenance.

Details

Provenance is stored in the "prov" attribute as N<U+2011>Triples text. Use n_triple() or n_triples() to construct valid statements that follow PROV<U+2011>O (e.g., prov:wasGeneratedBy, prov:wasInformedBy).

Value

provenance(x) returns the contents of the "prov" attribute (character vector of N<U+2011>Triples), or NULL if none is set.
provenance(x) <- value appends value to the "prov" attribute and returns the modified dataset invisibly.

Examples

provenance(orange_df)

# Add a provenance statement:
provenance(orange_df) <- n_triple(
  "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10396807",
  "http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasInformedBy",
  "http://example.com/source#1"
)

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