cff {cffr}

Create cff objects from direct inputs

Description

A class and utility methods for reading, creating and holding CFF information. See cff_class to learn more about cff objects.

Usage

cff(path, ...)

Arguments

path

path is no longer supported, use cff_read_cff_citation() instead.

...

Named arguments to be used for creating a cff object. If no arguments are supplied (the default behavior), a minimal valid cff object is created.

Details

cff() would convert ⁠_⁠ in the name of the argument to -, e.g. ⁠cff_version = "1.2.0'⁠ would be converted to ⁠cff-version = "1.2.0'⁠.

Valid parameters are those specified on cff_schema_keys():

• cff-version

• message

• type

• license

• title

• version

• doi

• abstract

• authors

• preferred-citation

• repository

• repository-artifact

• repository-code

• url

• date-released

• contact

• keywords

• references

• commit

• identifiers

• license-url

Value

A cff object. Under the hood, a cff object is a regular list object with a special print method.

See Also

Other core functions of cffr: cff_create(), cff_modify(), cff_validate()

Examples

# Blank cff
cff()

# Use custom params
test <- cff(
  title = "Manipulating files",
  keywords = c("A", "new", "list", "of", "keywords"),
  authors = as_cff_person("New author")
)
test

# Would fail
cff_validate(test)


# Modify with cff_create
new <- cff_create(test, keys = list(
  "cff_version" = "1.2.0",
  message = "A blank file"
))
new

# Would pass
cff_validate(new)