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Update a resource's metadata

Source: R/resource_patch.R
resource_patch.Rd

Update a resource's metadata

Usage

resource_patch(
  x,
  id,
  url = get_default_url(),
  key = get_default_key(),
  as = "list",
  ...
)

Arguments

x

(list) A list with key-value pairs

id

(character) Resource ID to update (required)

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 a package
(res <- package_create("twist", author="Alexandria"))

# then create a resource
file <- system.file("examples", "actinidiaceae.csv", package = "ckanr")
(xx <- resource_create(package_id = res$id, description = "my resource"))

# Get a resource
res <- resource_show(xx$id)
res$description

# Make some changes
x <- list(description = "My newer description")
z <- resource_patch(x, id = res)
z$description

# Add an extra key:value pair
extra <- list("extra_key" = "my special value")
zz <- resource_patch(extra, id = res)
zz$extra_key
}