README.md

In djvanderlaan/datapackage: Creating and Reading Data Packages

datapackage

datapackage is an R-package to work with Data Packages. Data Packages a a combination of data and meta data. The meta data contains a description of the data and contains information like a title, description and a description of the fields in each of the datasets in the Data Package. The datapackage R-package offers methods for reading and inspecting Data Packages as well as creating and modifying Data Packages. More information can be found in the vignettes of the package:

• Introduction to datapackage
• Creating a Data Package

The package supports CSV-files out of the box. Other file formats are supported through plugings.

• parquet. This package also functions as an example implementation for implementing a plugin for a data format.

djvanderlaan/datapackage documentation built on March 18, 2024, 4:57 p.m.