rocrateR: Tools for Creating and Manipulating RO-Crates

Provides tools for creating, manipulating and reading Research Object Crates (RO-Crates), a lightweight approach to packaging research data with structured metadata. Includes utilities for metadata generation, entity management, validation and reading existing RO-Crates following the specification <https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.2/>.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: digest, jsonlite, lifecycle, zip
Suggests: fs, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-04-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rocrateR
Author: Roberto Villegas-Diaz ORCID iD [aut, cre], Rebecca Wilson ORCID iD [aut], Olly Butters ORCID iD [aut], Stuart Wheater ORCID iD [aut], Research Object community [cph]
Maintainer: Roberto Villegas-Diaz <r.villegas-diaz at outlook.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate-r/issues/
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate-r/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: rocrateR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rocrateR.html , rocrateR.pdf
Vignettes: Getting started with rocrateR (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: rocrateR_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rocrateR_0.0.1.zip, r-release: rocrateR_0.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: rocrateR_0.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rocrateR_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rocrateR_0.0.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rocrateR_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rocrateR_0.1.0.tgz
Old sources: rocrateR archive

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