Read Epic Cosmos Data

Read in metadata and data from an Epic Cosmos file.

Usage

dcf_read_epic(path, path_root = ".")

Arguments

path

Path to the file.

path_root

Directory containing path, if it is not full.

Value

A list with data.frame entries for metadata and data.

Examples

# write an example file
path <- tempfile(fileext = ".csv")
raw_lines <- c(
  "metadata field,metadata value,",
  ",,",
  ",Measures,Value Name",
  "Year,Measure 1,",
  "2020,m1,1",
  ",m2,2",
  "2021,m1,3",
  ",m2,4"
)
writeLines(raw_lines, path)

# read it in
dcf_read_epic(basename(path), dirname(path))
#> $metadata
#> $metadata$file
#> [1] "file83c864a2dae.csv"
#> 
#> $metadata$md5
#> [1] "7abcea997e7630c84a12284d5abc2b97"
#> 
#> $metadata$date_processed
#> [1] "2025-07-10 13:22:45 EDT"
#> 
#> $metadata$standard_name
#> [1] ""
#> 
#> $metadata$`metadata field`
#> [1] "metadata value"
#> 
#> 
#> $data
#> # A tibble: 4 × 3
#>   year  measure_1 value_name
#>   <chr> <chr>     <chr>     
#> 1 2020  m1        1         
#> 2 2020  m2        2         
#> 3 2021  m1        3         
#> 4 2021  m2        4         
#>