download deployment metadata — get

downloads, restructures & formats metadata, appends dive/CTD start and end datetimes (for QC), & fills in missing required metadata - eg. release_datetime, release_longitude/latitude's with data from the GPS (if present) or Argos location file.

get_metadata(
  source = "smru",
  tag_mfr = "smru",
  tag_data = NULL,
  cid = NULL,
  user = NULL,
  pwd = NULL,
  dropIDs = NULL,
  file = NULL,
  meta.args,
  subset.ids = NULL,
  wc.meta = NULL
)

Arguments

source: the source of the deployment metadata, current options are imos, smru, or atn. If source = 'imos' or source = 'atn' then metadata are obtained from user-provided .CSV file via the config.json file. If sourcce = 'smru' then metadata are built from a combination of SMRU server details & deployment details in the config.json file.
tag_mfr: the tag manufacturer, current options are smru or wc cid SMRU campaign ids
tag_data: a list of either smru data tables or wc files as output by pull_data.
cid: SMRU campaign id must be provided when the tag_mfr is smru
user: SMRU data server username as a quoted string - to be used only if metadata are to be built from SMRU server details (source = 'smru').
pwd: SMRU data server password as a quoted string - to be used only if metadata are to be built from SMRU server details (source = 'smru').
dropIDs: SMRU refs or WC ids to be dropped from QC
file: path to metadata .csv file, if provided then metadata will be read from the provided source
meta.args: optional metadata fields to be passed from config file when downloading tag metadata from SMRU server. Typically used only when no metadata filepath is provided in the config file.
subset.ids: a character vector of comma-separated (no spaces) WC UUID's to be included in the QC. Ignored if tag_mfr != "wc".
wc.meta: an R data.frame of Wildlife Computers tag deployment metadata obtained via download_data(). Typically used only when no metadata filepath is provided in the config file.