Initialise a metadata object from an import file
initializeDwCMetadata(fileLocation, fileEncoding = "", fileType = NA, ...)
A character
scalar containing the location of the import file
A character
string. If non-empty, declares the encoding to be used on a file so the
character data can be re-encoded as they are written
A character
scalar stating the type of the file. File type can be either
"rmarkdown"
, "html"
, "eml"
, or "darwincore"
. If NA
then the
file type will be determined from the file extension
A set of arguments to be passed to the xml_new_root
function to define namespace information. The values returned by the helper function
getDefaultEMLDefinitionInfo
will be used unless
overwritten by user input here. In addition, arguments required by the EML standard but
not provided here (such as the packageID
attribute) will be otherwise auto-generated
A new DwCMetadata
object
DwCMetadata