R package for iRODS icommands. This R package is an interface between R and iRODS the integrated Rule Oriented Data System.
This package tries to implement the core functionality to work with iRODS collections from within R.
With this package you can:
- Connect to an iRODS Zone
- Create and remove collections
- store and retrieve data from a collection
- add and remove meta data from data objects
For this package to run you need Python3. This package is based on the python irodsclient and it uses reticulate to interact with this library.
You also need access to an iRODS zone and make sure that your iRODS environment is set up properly.
This package is developed and tested on Linux systems. If you want to use it on MacOS or Windows, you're on your own.
The current release is version 1.0.0. Version numbers follow the major.minor.patch versioning system. Please, see the [NEWS] (https://github.com/jspijker/ricmd/blob/master/NEWS.md) file for the release info.
This package is still under development and new features will be added in the future. For example meta data management for collections and search queries on meta data are anticipated.
latest features can be found in the development branches of this package.
This package contains tests. However, for these tests to run successfully a speficic testing environment with an iRODS install is needed.
This package is not (yet) available on CRAN, you can install it directly from GitHub:
remotes::install_github("jspijker/ricmd",build_vignettes=TRUE)To read the vignette:
vignette("ricmd")This package is publicly available under the GPL 3.0 licence, please see accompanying LICENCE file.