Author : Maëlle Salmon
A while ago we
onboarded an
exciting package, codemetar
by Carl Boettiger. codemetar is an R specific
information collector and parser for the CodeMeta
project. In particular, codemetar can
digest metadata about an R package in order to fill the terms
recognized by CodeMeta. This means
extracting information from DESCRIPTION but also from e.g. continuous
integration[1] badges in the README! In this note, we’ll take advantage
of codemetar::extract_badges function to explore the diversity of
badges worn by the READMEs of CRAN packages.
Read the full post here: https://ropensci.org/technotes/2018/09/10/github-badges/