sandr: sandr: A package for sharing and documenting whole data

In arendsee/sandr: A framework for small data

Description

The SAND format is designed to allow clean packaging of data in a purely textual environment.

Details

Data is frequently shared between researchers or stored within projects as scattered csv text files or excel spreadsheets. Since these are independent entities meant to be used in their entirety, there is little incentive to build them into formal databases. In this context, ease of implementation and depth of documentation of the data is more important than distribution or accesibility.

Main functions

• read_sand - read a sand project

• write_sand - write a sand project

• as.sand - turn a data frame into a sand object

• field_info - view metadata for a column in a sand table

• desc - view sand project README

• meta - view table of column annotations

arendsee/sandr documentation built on May 10, 2019, 1:25 p.m.