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dataone (version 2.2.2)

getMetadataMember: Get the DataObject containing package metadata

Description

Each DataObject in the DataPackage is inspected to see if it matches one of the formats supported by DataONE for metadata. If a package member's format matches one of the supported formats, the identifier for that member is returned.

Usage

getMetadataMember(x, dp, ...)

# S4 method for D1Client,DataPackage getMetadataMember(x, dp, as = "character", ...)

Arguments

x

A D1Client object

dp

A DataPackage object

...

(Additional arguments, Not yet used.)

as

A value of type "character" that specifies the return value. Possible values are "character" (the default) or "DataPackage".

Value

The identifier of the metadata object

Details

This method calls the DataONE CN 'format' service to obtain the current format list.