ckanr (version 0.3.0)

resource_patch: Update a resource's metadata

Description

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: http://data.techno-science.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 POST (optional)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Setup
ckanr_setup(url = "https://demo.ckan.org", key = getOption("ckan_demo_key"))

# Get a resource
res <- resource_show("b85948b6-f9ea-4392-805e-00511d6cf6c6")
res$description

# Make some changes
x <- list(description = "My newer description")
resource_patch(x, id = res)
# or pass id in directly
# resource_patch(x, id = res$id)
# }