README.md

In njtierney/datadevtools: Simplifies Creating and Sharing Data

datadevtools

The tidyverse has made package development a lot easier. In the past, there was a lot of work with using tools like package.skeleton, the pseudo-latex for documentation of each R function, and so on. This made it hard to create high quality R packages. There was a lot of manual work to make sure that things were documented properly. That has now been made easier thanks to devtools, and roxygen2. More people can now quite easily write a high quality package.

We are still in the past a bit with the current state of data sharing tools. There is the same opportunity here with data tooling as there was with package development tools like devtools. The aim of datadevtools is to automate checks for your data, and make it easy to do things like:

• Add Metadata file
• Add a README (and paste the metadata file here)
• Add attribution/citation information
• Add data appropriate licenses
• Share on a cloud service
• Perform general data formatting checks
• Run checks on the data source (like in checkers)

njtierney/datadevtools documentation built on May 31, 2019, 5:37 a.m.