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title: 'git2rdata: Store and Retrieve Data.frames in a Git Repository'
version: 0.4.1
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1485309
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.git2rdata
- type: url
  value: https://github.com/ropensci/git2rdata/
- type: url
  value: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1485309
abstract: 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.
authors:
- family-names: Onkelinx
  given-names: Thierry
  email: thierry.onkelinx@inbo.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8804-4216
  affiliation: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'git2rdata: Store and Retrieve Data.frames in a Git Repository. Version 0.4.1'
  authors:
  - family-names: Onkelinx
    given-names: Thierry
    email: thierry.onkelinx@inbo.be
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8804-4216
    affiliation: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
  year: '2024'
  url: https://ropensci.github.io/git2rdata/
  abstract: 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.
  keywords:
  - git
  - version control
  - plain text data
  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1485309
repository: https://inbo.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ropensci/git2rdata
commit: 2e586572994f899868ecab50a56e15b4256c2a68
url: https://ropensci.github.io/git2rdata/
contact:
- family-names: Onkelinx
  given-names: Thierry
  email: thierry.onkelinx@inbo.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8804-4216
  affiliation: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)