In codemeta/codemetar: Generate 'CodeMeta' Metadata for R Packages

Why codemetar? The 'Codemeta' Project defines a 'JSON-LD' format for describing software metadata, as detailed at https://codemeta.github.io. This package provides utilities to generate, parse, and modify codemeta.jsonld files automatically for R packages, as well as tools and examples for working with codemeta json-ld more generally.

It has three main goals:

• Quickly generate a valid codemeta.json file from any valid R package. To do so, we automatically extract as much metadata as possible using the DESCRIPTION file, as well as extracting metadata from other common best-practices such as the presence of Travis and other badges in README, etc.
• Facilitate the addition of further metadata fields into a codemeta.json file, as well as general manipulation of codemeta files.
• Support the ability to crosswalk between terms used in other metadata standards, as identified by the Codemeta Project Community, see https://codemeta.github.io/crosswalk/

codemeta/codemetar documentation built on July 9, 2024, 2:08 a.m.