cpfaff / rBExIS

Exchange data and metadata between R and BExIS II
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Add metadata functionality #7

Open cpfaff opened 9 years ago

cpfaff commented 9 years ago

Fetch (meta-data) the data structure from BExIS to provide this information to the user maybe as attributes attached to the native data object in R. BEXIS supports a host of different metadata schemata. We cannot support all of them for the import into R. Thus we better go with the conversion mechanism also provided from BEXIS which allows to convert and return metadata in one specific format. It would be good to go with the Ecological Metadata Language as there is already an R package that supports handling the format.