lingtypology: easy mapping for Lingustic Typology (original) (raw)

Summary

• What does this package do? (explain in 50 words or less):
  Provides R with the Glottolog database http://glottolog.org and some more abilities for purposes of linguistic mapping. The Glottolog database contains the catalogue of languages of the world. This package helps researchers to make a linguistic maps, using philosophy of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project http://clld.org/, which allows for while at the same time facilitating uniform access to the data across publications. A tutorial for this package is available on GitHub pages https://agricolamz.github.io/lingtypology/ and package vignette.
• Paste the full DESCRIPTION file inside a code block below:

Package: lingtypology
Type: Package
Title: Linguistic Typology and Mapping
Version: 1.0.1
Depends: R (>= 2.10)
Imports:
    leaflet,
    stats,
    stringdist,
    magrittr,
    grDevices,
    rowr
Author: George Moroz
Maintainer: George Moroz <agricolamz@gmail.com>
Description: Provides R with the Glottolog database <http://glottolog.org> and some more abilities for purposes of linguistic cartography. The Glottolog database contains the catalogue of languages of the world. This package helps researchers to make a linguistic maps, using philosophy of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project <http://clld.org/>, which allows for while at the same time facilitating uniform access to the data across publications. A tutorial for this package is available on GitHub pages <https://agricolamz.github.io/lingtypology/> and package vignette.
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lingtypology, https://github.com/agricolamz/lingtypology/
LazyData: TRUE
RoxygenNote: 5.0.1
Suggests:
    knitr,
    rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr

• URL for the package (the development repository, not a stylized html page):
  lingtypology
• Who is the target audience?
  Linguists, Linguistic typologists
• Are there other R packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, what is different about yours?
  No, as far as I know

Requirements

Confirm each of the following by checking the box. This package:

• does not violate the Terms of Service of any service it interacts with.
• has a CRAN and OSI accepted license.
• contains a README with instructions for installing the development version.
• includes documentation with examples for all functions.
• contains a vignette with examples of its essential functions and uses.
• has a test suite.
• has continuous integration with Travis CI and/or another service.

Publication options

• Do you intend for this package to go on CRAN?
  Yes
• Do you wish to automatically submit to the Journal of Open Source Software? If so:
  • The package contains a paper.md with a high-level description in the package root or in inst/.
  • The package is deposited in a long-term repository with the DOI:
  • (Do not submit your package separately to JOSS)

Detail

• Does R CMD check (or devtools::check()) succeed? Paste and describe any errors or warnings:
• Does the package conform to rOpenSci packaging guidelines? Please describe any exceptions:
• I use not.snake.style function names. Sorry.
• I didn't provide example usage in my README.md, but I added a link to detailed tutorial.
• If this is a resubmission following rejection, please explain the change in circumstances:
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