Get all meta data from an iRODS object

This function retrieves all meta data, i.e. AVU triples, from an iRODS data object.

Usage

ri_metaGet(object, collection = ri_getCollection(), return_list = FALSE)

Arguments

object

name of data object

collection

iRODS collection where data object resides

return_list

Returns the metadata as list object

Value

A data.frame with three fields for attribute, value and units data

This function returns the meta data of an iRODS data object as data.frame. This data.frame has 3 columns: attribute, value and units, corresponding with the attribute, value, unit tripple of the iRODS catalog

It return_list is TRUE an internal representation of the meta data is returned as attribute