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Update a package's metadata

Source: R/package_patch.R
package_patch.Rd

Update a package's metadata

Usage

package_patch(
  x,
  id = NULL,
  extras = NULL,
  http_method = "GET",
  key = get_default_key(),
  url = get_default_url(),
  as = "list",
  ...
)

Arguments

x

(list) A list with key-value pairs

id

(character) Resource ID to update (optional, required if x does not have an "id" field)

extras

(character vector) - the dataset's extras (optional), extras are arbitrary (key: value) metadata items that can be added to datasets, each extra dictionary should have keys 'key' (a string), 'value' (a string)

http_method

(character) which HTTP method (verb) to use; one of "GET" or "POST". Default: "GET"

key

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

url

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

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

# Create a package
(res <- package_create("hello-world13", author="Jane Doe"))

# Get a resource
res <- package_show(res$id)
res$title

# patch
package_patch(res, extras = list(list(key = "foo", value = "bar")))
unclass(package_show(res))
} # }