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This function extracts all references for selected VegVault extraction plan (i,e., this function should be used before extracting data from the plan).

Usage

get_references(
  con = NULL,
  type = c("Dataset", "DatasetSource", "DatasetSourceType", "SamplingMethod", "Sample",
    "Taxon", "Trait", "AbioticVariable"),
  get_source = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

con

A VegVault connection (a plan).

type

A character vector specifying the type of references to be extracted. The function will try to extract all possible reference types. The following types are available: Dataset, DatasetSource, DatasetSourceType, SamplingMethod, Sample, Taxon, Trait, and AbioticVariable.

get_source

A logical indicating whether to extract the source of each references

verbose

A logical indicating whether to print messages about the progress of the function. Default is TRUE.

Value

A tibble containing all references for the selected data compilation.