getMetaData {NMMAPSlite}R Documentation

Utilities for obtaining metadata

Description

Utilities for getting metadata for NMMAPS city data

Usage

listCities()
getMetaData(name = NULL)

Arguments

name character, name of metadata object

Details

If name is NULL for getMetaData, then a character vector is returned containing the names of all the available metadata objects. listCities returns a character vector of the abbreviated names for all of the cities. These abbreviated names should be used directly with the readCity function.

Value

listCities returns a character vector. getMetaData returns a character vector or a metadata object.

Author(s)

Roger D. Peng rpeng@jhsph.edu

See Also

readCity

Examples

## Not run: 
initDB()
listCities()
getMetaData()
counties <- getMetaData("counties")
head(counties)
## End(Not run)

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