elm is a package for import and type conversion of metadata statements. It’s function is to enable users to store metadata in markdown files, and convert them to EML.

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This package is under active development, and is not yet available on CRAN. You can install the latest development version from GitHub with:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("atlasoflivingaustralia/elm")

Load the package:

library(elm)

elm contains tools to:

• Import markdown files to R
• convert to tibbles, eml (list) format, or xml

To generate a citation for the package version you are using, you can run:

citation(package = "elm")

The current recommended citation is:

Westgate MJ, Balasubramaniam S & Kellie D (2024) elm: Convert markdown files to EML. R Package version 0.1.0.9999.