In mrjoh3/about: Read and Write Metadata

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
  out.width = "100%"
)

about

The purpose of about is to read and write metadata. Specifically it can read the metadata from any webpage and it can write arbitrary metadata to the YAML header of an Rmarkdown or Quarto file.

Installation

You can install the development version of about from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mrjoh3/about")

Example

Reading Metadata from a URL

library(about)

read_metadata('https://www.w3.org/', output = 'data.frame')

Adding Metadata to the YAML Header

create_document(
  title = 'My New Quarto with Metadata', 
  .fun = 'quarto', 
  security = 'confidential', 
  categories = c('metadata','create')
)

The code above will create a new Quarto file with the following yaml header:

---
title: My New Quarto with Metadata
format: html
editor: visual
uuid: a5b32d65-cf7a-4d1b-a996-5d22f4d65359
draft: yes
security: confidential
categories:
  - metadata
  - create
---