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Ecological Metadata Language interface for R: synthesis and integration of heterogenous data
https://docs.ropensci.org/EML
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Feature request: a utility to convert eml to roxygen tags + back again #224

Closed jsta closed 5 years ago

jsta commented 7 years ago

I am doing some hand conversion between eml and roxygen tags and would love a utility to automate the process. The only package I have found which generates roxygen tags from a template is: https://github.com/metrumresearchgroup/sinew

amoeba commented 7 years ago

Interesting. What does this look like? Do you have an example EML and the roxygen markup you convert it to?

maelle commented 7 years ago

Is it for documenting data in your R packages?

jsta commented 7 years ago

@maelle Yes

maelle commented 7 years ago

Do you think the inverse use case (from roxygen tags to EML) would happen a lot?

jsta commented 7 years ago

@amoeba Unfortunately I do not have a one-to-one mapping example of going between the two formats at this time. Work is in progress. My colleagues and I are working off a minimally structured (non-EML, non-roxygen) metadata document. They are hand converting to EML. I am hand converting to roxygen. Would be a lot more efficient if that conversion only had to happen once.

cboettig commented 5 years ago

hmm... new version of EML has set_software() to create EML software description. It uses a codemeta file as input (which can be created for an R package easily with the codemetar package).