Package: git2rdata
Title: Store and Retrieve Data.frames in a Git Repository
Version: 0.5.2
Authors@R: c(
    person("Thierry", "Onkelinx", , "thierry.onkelinx@inbo.be", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8804-4216", affiliation = "Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)")),
    person("Floris", "Vanderhaeghe", , "floris.vanderhaeghe@inbo.be", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6378-6229", affiliation = "Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)")),
    person("Peter", "Desmet", , "peter.desmet@inbo.be", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8442-8025", affiliation = "Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)")),
    person("Els", "Lommelen", , "els.lommelen@inbo.be", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3481-5684", affiliation = "Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)")),
    person("Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)", , , "info@inbo.be", role = c("cph", "fnd"),
           comment = c(ROR = "00j54wy13"))
  )
Description: The git2rdata package is an R package for writing and
        reading dataframes as plain text files.  A metadata file stores
        important information.  1) Storing metadata allows to maintain
        the classes of variables.  By default, git2rdata optimizes the
        data for file storage. The optimization is most effective on
        data containing factors.  The optimization makes the data less
        human readable.  The user can turn this off when they prefer a
        human readable format over smaller files. Details on the
        implementation are available in vignette("plain_text", package
        = "git2rdata").  2) Storing metadata also allows smaller row
        based diffs between two consecutive commits.  This is a useful
        feature when storing data as plain text files under version
        control.  Details on this part of the implementation are
        available in vignette("version_control", package =
        "git2rdata").  Although we envisioned git2rdata with a git
        workflow in mind, you can use it in combination with other
        version control systems like subversion or mercurial.  3)
        git2rdata is a useful tool in a reproducible and traceable
        workflow.  vignette("workflow", package = "git2rdata") gives a
        toy example.  4) vignette("efficiency", package = "git2rdata")
        provides some insight into the efficiency of file storage, git
        repository size and speed for writing and reading.
License: GPL-3
URL: https://ropensci.github.io/git2rdata/,
        https://github.com/ropensci/git2rdata/,
        https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1485309
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/git2rdata/issues
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: assertthat, git2r (>= 0.23.0), methods, yaml
Suggests: ggplot2, jsonlite, knitr, microbenchmark, rmarkdown, testthat
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/checklist/communities: inbo
Config/checklist/keywords: git; version control; plain text data
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-GB
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Collate: 'clean_data_path.R' 'data_package.R' 'datahash.R'
        'display_metadata.R' 'git2rdata_package.R' 'is_git2rmeta.R'
        'write_vc.R' 'is_git2rdata.R' 'list_data.R' 'meta.R' 'print.R'
        'prune.R' 'read_vc.R' 'recent_commit.R' 'reexport.R'
        'reinstate.R' 'relabel.R' 'rename_variable.R'
        'update_metadata.R' 'upgrade_data.R' 'utils.R' 'verify_vc.R'
Config/pak/sysreqs: libgit2-dev
Repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-04-09 07:44:33 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/ropensci/git2rdata
RemoteRef: main
RemoteSha: 513d2363d505fba68a263f9da8dd5b96249ff97e
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-01 08:14:38 UTC; root
Author: Thierry Onkelinx [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8804-4216>, affiliation: Research
    Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)),
  Floris Vanderhaeghe [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6378-6229>, affiliation: Research
    Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)),
  Peter Desmet [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025>,
    affiliation: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)),
  Els Lommelen [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3481-5684>,
    affiliation: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)),
  Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) [cph, fnd] (ROR:
    <https://ror.org/00j54wy13>)
Maintainer: Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkelinx@inbo.be>