Create a GEDCOM object — GedcomS7 • gedcomS7

You shouldn't need to use this directly to create new GEDCOM objects. Instead, use new_gedcom() which populates relevant defaults.

Usage

GedcomS7(
  header = GedcomHeader(),
  records = GedcomRecords(),
  update_change_dates = FALSE,
  add_creation_dates = FALSE
)

Arguments

header: An S7 object whose properties contain information about the GEDCOM object as a whole.
records: An S7 object whose properties contain information about all records. Do not edit properties in capitals directly. See Details for more information.
update_change_dates: Whether to automatically update change dates when updating records. This happens when the record is pushed to the gedcom object.
add_creation_dates: Whether to automatically add creation dates when creating records. This happens when the record is pushed to the gedcom object.

Value

An S7 object representing a GEDCOM file.

Details

All information about records is contained in the @records property.

The @prefixes property is a named vector containing any alphanumeric string (up to 6 characters long) which will precede the number given to identify new records, of which there are currently 7 types:

Individual (INDI) Family (FAM) Source (SOUR) Repository (REPO) Multimedia (OBJE) Note (SNOTE) Submitter (SUBM)

This vector must be of a particular length with specific names. For example: c(SUBM = "U", INDI = "I", FAM = "F", SOUR = "S", REPO = "R", OBJE = "M", SNOTE = "N").

The order that these records appear in the vector will also dictate the order in which records will appear in the exported file.