{data.io} main functions are read() and write(). They are made super-easy to import and export data in various formats in an unified way (they use functions from other packages under the hood like {haven}, {readr}, {readxl}, {writexl} …). They care about metadata, in particular, meaningful labels and units for the variables. Also, a mechanism to preprocess data sets using sidecar files, and to translate them into various languages are provided for a subset of R packages data sets.
Installation
{data.io} is not available from CRAN yet. You should install it from the SciViews R-Universe. To install this package and its dependencies, run the following command in R:
{r, eval=FALSE} install.packages('data.io', repos = c('https://sciviews.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))
You can also install the latest development version. Make sure you have the {remotes} R package installed:
install.packages("remotes")Use install_github() to install the {data.io} package from Github (source from main branch will be recompiled on your machine):
remotes::install_github("SciViews/data.io")R should install all required dependencies automatically, and then it should compile and install {data.io}.
Further explore {data.io}
You can get further help about this package this way. Make the {data.io} package available in your R session:
Get help about this package:
library(help = "data.io")
help("data.io-package")
vignette("data-io") # None is installed with install_github()For further instructions, please, refer to these help pages at https://www.sciviews.org/data.io/.
Code of Conduct
Please note that the {data.io} package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.