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rocrateR

Tools for Creating and Manipulating RO-Crates

v0.1.0 · Apr 8, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

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/>.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
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examples

Running examples in ‘rocrateR-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: unbag_rocrate
> ### Title: 'Unbag' (extract) RO-Crate packed with BagIt
> ### Aliases: unbag_rocrate

...[truncated]...
d801447d63279871c58b10482351/data/ro-crate-metadata.json', reason 'No such file or directory'
Error: It was not possible to bag all your files!
Missing file(s):
 - ro-crate-metadata.json

To ignore this check, set `force_bag = TRUE`.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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imports

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies digest jsonlite lifecycle zip dsROCrate rocrateR

Version History

2 tracked
updated 0.1.0 ← 0.0.1 diff Apr 8, 2026
new 0.0.1 Mar 10, 2026

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