cff2r {citation}

Convert from CFF into R

Description

Converts a CFF file into DESCRIPTION

Usage

cff2r(cffFile = "CITATION.cff", export = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

cffFile

Path and name of the CFF file

export

if 'TRUE', the output is saved as DESCRIPTION (plus an extension to avoid overwriting)

...

when export = TRUE, the user can pass additional arguments to the exportDESCRIPTION function. More information in the Details section.

Details

CFF is a standard format for the citation of software proposed by Stephan Druskat et. al. (see references below). CFF-compliant files are stored in files named CITATION.cff.

CITATION.cff files are plain text files with human- and machine-readable citation information for software. Code developers can include them in their repositories to let others know how to correctly cite their software.

When export = TRUE, the user can use the following arguments to customize the output file:

outname

The name of the exported file

overwrite

Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, will replace any homonymous file present on the export path

outpath

By default, the file is saved to a temporary directory. One may provide a different path here. For example, outpath = "." will save to the current working directory

Value

A CFF file converted to a DESCRIPTION file.

Author(s)

Waldir Leoncio

References

Druskat S., Spaaks J.H., Chue Hong N., Haines R., Baker J. (2019). Citation File Format (CFF) (version 1.1.0). DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1003149

https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2017-12-12-standard-format-citation-files https://citation-file-format.github.io https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/blob/master/README.md https://citation-file-format.github.io/cff-initializer-javascript/

See Also

r2cff

Examples

## Not run: 
# Printing converted file onto R session
citation_file <- system.file("CFF-CITATION.cff", package = "citation")
cff2r(citation_file)

# Saving converted file to temporary folder on system
tempFolder <- tempdir()
cff2r(
 citation_file, export = TRUE, outname = "converted-desc", overwrite = TRUE,
 outpath = tempFolder
)

# Making sure the file is indeed there
cat(readLines(file.path(tempFolder, "converted-desc")), sep="\n")

## End(Not run)