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Read all top-level metadata from an RCDF file

Source: R/metadata.R
get_attrs.Rd

Extracts and returns the complete metadata JSON stored inside an .rcdf archive without decrypting or loading the underlying data. Useful for inspecting provenance, checksums, encryption parameters, and embedded data dictionaries without a decryption key.

Usage

get_attrs(path)

Arguments

path

Character string. Path to a valid .rcdf file.

Value

A named list corresponding to the metadata.json stored inside the archive. Common keys include log_id, created_at, version, checksum, dictionary, and key.

See also

get_rcdf_metadata for retrieving a single metadata key, get_attr for reading metadata attributes attached to an in-memory RCDF object.

Examples

dir <- system.file("extdata", package = "rcdf")
rcdf_path <- file.path(dir, "mtcars.rcdf")

meta <- get_attrs(rcdf_path)
meta$version
#> [1] "0.1.3"
meta$created_at
#> [1] "2026-02-13 01:34:23"