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Update a package

Usage

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

Arguments

x

(list) A list with key-value pairs

id

(character) Package identifier

http_method

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

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

# Create a package
(pkg <- package_create("hello-world11", author="Jane Doe"))

# Next show the package to see the fields
(res <- package_show(pkg$id))

## update just chosen things
# Make some changes
x <- list(maintainer_email = "heythere2@things.com")

# Then update the packge
package_update(x, pkg$id)
} # }