Create, Stow, and Read Data Packages

Data frame, tibble, or tbl objects are converted to data package objects using specific metadata labels (name, version, title, homepage, description). A data package object ('dpkg') can be written to disk as a 'parquet' file or released to a 'GitHub' repository. Data package objects can be read into R from online repositories and downloaded files are cached locally across R sessions.

dpkg

Description: Data frame, tibble, or tbl objects are converted to data package objects using specific metadata labels (name, version, title, homepage, description). A data package object (dpkg) can be written to disk as a 'parquet' file or released to a 'GitHub' repository. Data package objects can be read into R from online repositories and downloaded files are cached locally across R sessions.

Installation

Install the released version of dpkg from CRAN with:

install.packages("dpkg")

You can install the development version of dpkg from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("cole-brokamp/dpkg")