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thredds (version 0.1-4)

ThreddsNode: A base representation that other nodes subclass from

Description

R6 base class for all other to inherit from

Arguments

Public fields

url

character - possibly wrong but usually right!

node

xml2::xml_node

verbose

logical

prefix

xpath namespace prefix, NA or NULL or charcater() to ignore

tries

numeric number of requests attempts before failing

encoding

character, by default 'UTF-8'

base_url

character, the base URL for the service

Methods

Method new()

initialize an instance of ThreddsNode

Usage

ThreddsNode$new(
  x,
  verbose = FALSE,
  n_tries = 3,
  prefix = NULL,
  ns_strip = FALSE,
  encoding = "UTF-8",
  base_url = ""
)

Arguments

x

url or xml2::xml_node

verbose

logical, TRUE to be noisy (default FALSE)

n_tries

numeric, defaults to 3

prefix

character, the namespace to examine (default NULL, inherited when initialized)

ns_strip

logical, if TRUE then strip namespace (default FALSE)

encoding

character, by default 'UTF-8'

base_url

character, the base URL for the service

Method print()

print method

Usage

ThreddsNode$print(prefix = "", ...)

Arguments

prefix

character, to be printed before each line of output (like spaces)

...

other argum,ents (ignored for now)

Method GET()

Retrieve a node of the contents at this nodes URL

Usage

ThreddsNode$GET()

Returns

ThreddsNode or subclass or NULL

Method browse()

Browse the URL if possible

Usage

ThreddsNode$browse()

Method children_names()

Retrieve a vector of unique child names

Usage

ThreddsNode$children_names(...)

Arguments

...

further arguments for xml_children_names

Returns

a vector of zero or more child names

Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

ThreddsNode$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.