rocrateR: Tools for Creating and Manipulating RO-Crates

Provides tools for creating, manipulating and reading Research Object Crates (RO-Crates), a lightweight approach to packaging research data with structured metadata. Includes utilities for metadata generation, entity management, validation and reading existing RO-Crates following the specification <https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.2/>.

Package details

AuthorRoberto Villegas-Diaz [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5036-8661>), Rebecca Wilson [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2294-593X>), Olly Butters [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0354-8461>), Stuart Wheater [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2419-1964>), Research Object community [cph]
MaintainerRoberto Villegas-Diaz <r.villegas-diaz@outlook.com>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.1.0
URL https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate-r/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("rocrateR")

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rocrateR documentation built on April 9, 2026, 1:06 a.m.