Read metadata for a particular id. You may want to use orderly_search to find an id corresponding to a particular query.
Arguments
- id
The id to fetch metadata for. An error will be thrown if this id is not known
- root
The path to the root directory, or
NULL
(the default) to search for one from the current working directory. This function does not require that the directory is configured for orderly, and can be anyoutpack
root (see orderly_init for details).