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Create an organization

Source: R/organization_create.R
organization_create.Rd

Create an organization

Usage

organization_create(
  name = NULL,
  id = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  description = NULL,
  image_url = NULL,
  state = "active",
  approval_status = NULL,
  extras = NULL,
  packages = NULL,
  users = NULL,
  url = get_default_url(),
  key = get_default_key(),
  as = "list",
  ...
)

Arguments

name

(character) the name of the organization, a string between 2 and 100 characters long, containing only lowercase alphanumeric characters,

  • and _

id

the id of the organization (optional)

title

(character) the title of the organization (optional)

description

(character) the description of the organization (optional)

image_url

(character) the URL to an image to be displayed on the organization's page (optional)

state

(character) the current state of the organization, e.g. 'active' or 'deleted', only active organization show up in search results and other lists of organization, this parameter will be ignored if you are not authorized to change the state of the organization (optional). Default: 'active'

approval_status

(character) Approval status

extras

The organization's extras (optional), extras are arbitrary (key: value) metadata items that can be added to organizations, each extra dictionary should have keys 'key' (a string), 'value' (a string) package_relationship_create for the format of relationship dictionaries (optional)

packages

(list of dictionaries) the datasets (packages) that belong to the organization, a list of dictionaries each with keys 'name' (string, the id or name of the dataset) and optionally 'title' (string, the title of the dataset)

users

(character) the users that belong to the organization, a list of dictionaries each with key 'name' (string, the id or name of the user) and optionally 'capacity' (string, the capacity in which the user is a member of the organization)

url

Base url to use. Default: https://data.ontario.ca/ See also ckanr_setup and get_default_url.

key

A privileged CKAN API key, Default: your key set with ckanr_setup

as

(character) One of list (default), table, or json. Parsing with table option uses jsonlite::fromJSON(..., simplifyDataFrame = TRUE), which attempts to parse data to data.frame's when possible, so the result can vary from a vector, list or data.frame. (required)

...

Curl args passed on to verb-POST (optional)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Setup
ckanr_setup(url = "https://demo.ckan.org/", key = getOption("ckan_demo_key"))

# create an organization
(res <- organization_create("foobar", title = "Foo bars",
  description = "love foo bars"))
res$name
}