EMLaide

Installation

This package can be installed using the following commands:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("CVPIA-OSC/EMLaide")

Overview

This package provides tools to create EML files that are compliant with the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) standards. The package was designed to meet the specific needs of CVPIA's data guidance, but can be utilized by any persons wishing to create a working EML document that can be submitted to EDI. Documentation for each function can be found in the Reference tab. The full EML schema can be found on their website.

Usage

A working template and additional guides can be found under the 'Articles' tab. These articles give step by step instructions for generating EML documents using EMLaide.

Articles:

• Metadata Template Documentation - Instructions for using our template materials to create inputs for our functions to generate an EML document.
• Create EML Document from Template - Step by step instructions of how to generate a full EML document for an example dataset.