febr (version 1.0.1)

metadata: Get metadata table

Description

Download data from the metadata ("metadado") table of one or more datasets contained in the Free Brazilian Repository for Open Soil Data -- febr, http://www.ufsm.br/febr. This includes variable names, description of analytical methods, and identification of analysis laboratories.

Usage

metadata(dataset, progress = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

dataset

Character vector indicating one or more datasets. Identification codes should be as recorded in http://www.ufsm.br/febr/catalog/. Use dataset = "all" to download all datasets.

progress

(optional) Logical value indicating if a download progress bar should be displayed.

verbose

(optional) Logical value indicating if informative messages should be displayed. Generally useful to identify datasets with inconsistent data. Please report to if you find any issue.

Value

A list of data frames or a data frame with metadata of the chosen dataset(s).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
res <- metadata(dataset = "ctb0003")
head(res)
# }