README.md

In osi: Open Source Initiative API Connector

Open source license metadata retrieval with OSI

Author: Oliver Keyes License: MIT Status: Stable

osi is a simple package to connect to the Open Source Initiative's API from R. It contains functions for:

1. Retrieving metadata about open source licenses;
2. Extracting values from said metadata;
3. Retrieving the actual plaintext versions of licenses covered by the API.

For more information, see the accompanying vignette!

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Installation

For the most recent version, on CRAN:

install.packages("osi")

For the development version:

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("ironholds/osi")

Dependencies

• R. Doy.
• httr and its dependencies.

osi documentation built on May 29, 2017, 7 p.m.