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Rename _builder to extra #182

Open jeroen opened 2 years ago

jeroen commented 2 years ago

Right now dynamic metadata data for packages is stored under the _builder key (because it is set by the builder) but that is not a very good name, also because the underscore makes it difficult to subset in R:

df = jsonlite::fromJSON('https://jeroen.r-universe.dev/packages/V8')
df[['_builder']]

Maybe a simpler name like extra or metadata would be more clear.