Introducing Badgecreatr, a package to create and place badges in your readme.Rmd file on Github.

Badgecreatr will create the following badges (aka shields):

Installation

Install the package with install.packages("badgecreatr")

How do you use badgecreatr?

Badgecreatr has one main function: badgeplacer().

The most simple command is:

badgecreatr::badgeplacer( githubaccount = "yourgithubname",githubrepo = "yourpackagename", branch = "master")

If your project is in its infancy and you don’t want people to use it yet:

badgecreatr::badgeplacer(status = "wip" , githubaccount = "yourgithubname",githubrepo = "yourpackagename") which will give it the status ‘Work in Progress’.

Repostatus gives you seven project statuses; Concept, WIP, Suspended, Abandoned, Active, Inactive, and Unsupported.

Why would you use this package?

When you have started yet another Github based r-package, copied the travis file and created a readme.Rmd file and you want to add these badges. Frankly I was a bit annoyed to copy almost identical markdown to new projects, it seemed right for automation.

Why would I not use this package?

• you don’t create a r-package
• you don’t want to create badges
• you don’t use Github

What does badgecreatr do?

Badgecreatr reads your readme.Rmd file, reads your DESCRIPTION file and searches for a .travis.yml file.

Within the DESCRIPTION file badgecreatr will find: – package name – the version number of your package – the license : GPL-3, GPL-2, MIT, or CC0 – Minimal R version

Badgecreatr will create

• repostatus badge (by default it will give you an active status)
• a licence badge
• If it finds a .travis.yml file:a Travis-CI Build-Status Badge
• If it finds a codecov reference in the .travis.yml file, a Codecov Coverage Status Badge
• a badge to indicate the version of R you are using
• a CRAN status badge (will say ‘not published’ if your package is not on CRAN)
• a package version badge
• a last change badge

If you created badges in your readme before, badgecreatr will skip that badge.

Enjoy. – Roel

Notes:

• The badges for R version, package version and last change are my invention.
• The last change badge will update every time you re-knit your readme.md file
• If you have suggestions or improvement open an issue or submit a pull request.

Further reading

• The package on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/badgecreatr/index.html
• The package on Github : https://github.com/RMHogervorst/badgecreatr
• My inspiration: https://github.com/badges/badgerbadgerbadger & http://shields.io/

Introducing Badgecreatr, a package that places badges in your readme was originally published by at Clean Code on July 08, 2016.