create_entity.RdUse to examine entity list structure or troubleshoot invalid EML, or to put together custom entity lists. Use create_entity_all for common EML generation usage, which loops this function over all entities listed in a dataset under the hood.
create_entity(meta_list, file_dir = "", dataset_id, entity)
| meta_list | (character) A list of dataframes containing metadata returned by |
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| file_dir | (character) Path to directory containing flat files (data files). Defaults to current R working directory if "". Note: if there's information on "entityrecords", "filesize", "filesize_units", and "checksum" columns in the entities table in metabase, there is no need for reading the actual files, so this field can stay NULL. |
| dataset_id | (numeric) A dataset ID. |
| entity | (numeric) An entity number. |
(list) A list object containing one data entity.