Get 'metadata' table

Download data from the 'metadata' ("metadado") table of one or more datasets published in the Free Brazilian Repository for Open Soil Data (FEBR), https://www.pedometria.org/febr/. This table includes data such as variable names, description of analytical methods, and identification of analysis laboratories.

metadata(data.set, progress = TRUE, verbose = TRUE, febr.repo = NULL)

Arguments

data.set	Character vector indicating the identification code of one or more data sets. Use data.set = "all" to download all data sets.
progress	(optional) Logical value indicating if a download progress bar should be displayed.
verbose	(optional) Logical value indicating if informative messages should be displayed. Generally useful to identify datasets with inconsistent data. Please report to febr-forum@googlegroups.com if you find any issue.
febr.repo	(optional) Defaults to the remote file directory of the Federal University of Technology - Paraná at https://cloud.utfpr.edu.br/index.php/s/Df6dhfzYJ1DDeso. Alternatively, a local directory path can be informed if the user has a local copy of the data repository.

Value

A list of data frames or a data frame with metadata of the chosen dataset(s).

Note

Check the new core data download function readFEBR().

Author

Alessandro Samuel-Rosa alessandrosamuelrosa@gmail.com

Examples

# \donttest{
# res <- metadata(data.set = c("ctb0003", "ctb0020"))
res <- metadata(data.set = c("ctb0003", "ctb0002"))
#> 
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#> 
#> Reading ctb0003-metadado...
#> 
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#> 
#> Reading ctb0002-metadado...
#> 
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# }