Safely updates existing project metadata to be compatible with
projects 1.X.X.
update_metadata(ask = TRUE)Logical, indicating whether or not the user would be asked at the
command line whether or not to proceed. Defaults to TRUE.
Prior to projects 1.X.X, the stage,
current_owner, corresp_auth, and creator columns of the
projects() table were different.
The stage column was a factor, and users had to type stage
names exactly, down to the integer, colon, and space. Now, this column is of
class projects_stage.
The latter three columns were integers corresponding to ids in the
authors() table, so users would have to query that table if
they did not remember which author was denoted by the integer id.