Read raster attribute information from attributes metadata file

The read_raster_attributes function reads a raster's attribute details from a "entity name"_attrs.yaml or "entity name"_attrs.csv file in the working directory - the details of which are incorporated into the EML metadata for that entity.

The read_raster_attributes function reads a raster's attribute details from a "entity name"_attrs.yaml or "entity name"_attrs.csv file in the working directory - the details of which are incorporated into the EML metadata for that entity.

Usage

read_raster_attributes(entity_name, entity_id = "data_entity")

Arguments

entity_name

(character) The quoted name of the data entity.

entity_id

(character) Quoted identifier of the data object that is being described, this will usually be the name or hash of the data table (or otherwise) of which the attribute is associated.

Value

A entity of type EML attributes or list of attributes (for testing and debugging)

Note

The read_raster_attributes function is intended primarily as a helper to other functions in the capeml ecosystem so is not meant to be called directly (but can be).

The read_raster_attributes function is a helper function to the capemlGIS package. This separate function for attributes associated with rasters (as opposed to any other data type with the read_attributes function) is to avoid the tricky challenge of reading the data object into the R environment that is integral to read_attributes; in some cases we do read the raster object into the environment but not always so we do not want to force it as would be the case with read_attributes.