rbefdata (version 0.3.5)

bef.portal.upload.dataset: Upload a dataset to the BEFdata portal

Description

This function uploads a dataset from within R to a BEFdata portal set in your options. Before you can do so you need to have an account on the portal and set your credentials via the bef.options() function so the authentication works. The function requires a title for the dataset and either a path to a CSV file for for upload or a dataset object. The dataset must have unique column names.

Usage

bef.portal.upload.dataset(dataset, dataset_title, curl = getCurlHandle(), open_browser = F)

Arguments

dataset

The data you like to upload as dataset. This can be a path to a CSV file or a data frame. Please not that you have to ensure that the column names are unique.

dataset_title

The title of the dataset.

curl

You can pass in a curl handle with additional options. By default a curl handle is used to improve the memory footprint.

open_browser

If this is set to true the page of the dataset is opened in the browser after successful upload. This defaults to FALSE.

Value

Returns a status message with the ID of the dataset.

Examples

## Not run: 
#  dataset = data.frame(a = c(1,2,3,4), b = c("a","b","c","d"))
#  bef.portal.upload.dataset(dataset = dataset, dataset_title = "Testtitle", open_browser = T)
#       ## End(Not run)