Creating, updating & maintaining the bioacousticsquotes data base

library(bioacousticsquotes)

Fformat for quotes file

The quotes are stored in the data-raw/quotes_raw.txt file. The script data-raw/convert_quotes_to_rda.R can be used to read these quotes and save them to data/quotes.rda, which is the main data file used in the package.

The quotes_raw.txt file uses the following format for each quotation. Lines beginning with “%” are comments and ignored. Other lines contain a “key:value” pair. The key is used to identify the right column when building the quotes data.frame:

% Comment
quo: This is a quotation.
src: Person or persons who said or wrote the quote.
cit: Citation for the original quote.
url: URL where the quote can be found (such as journal articles).
tag: Comma-separated tags to categorize the quote.

Here is an example:

quo: A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
src: Thomas Carlyle
cit: Chartism, 1840, Chapter II, Statistics
url: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chartism/Chapter_2
tag: data visualization