psychds: Creating and Validating 'Psych-DS' Datasets
Provides a 'Shiny' application and helper functions for adopting 'Psych-DS' (<https://psych-ds.github.io/>), a community data standard for organizing and documenting datasets in the psychological and behavioral sciences inspired by the Brain Imaging Data Structure ('BIDS'). A guided interface walks researchers through the dataset creation process, organizing tabular data files into proper 'Psych-DS' directory structures, generating new, compliant, keyword-based filenames, and generating machine-readable 'JSON' metadata. Additional tools support building and editing data dictionaries with variable-level descriptions, validating datasets against the full 'Psych-DS' specification via a bundled 'JavaScript' validator, and exploring dataset contents interactively.
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | cli, jsonlite, rstudioapi, shiny (≥ 1.7.0), tools, utils |
| Suggests: | crosstalk, DT, fs, knitr, miniUI, pointblank, rmarkdown, shinydashboard, shinyjs, sortable, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), zip |
| Published: | 2026-10-15 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.psychds (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology [cph],
Brian Leonard 
[aut, cre],
Melissa Kline Struhl
[aut] |
| Maintainer: | Brian Leonard <bleonard at mit.edu> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/psych-ds/psychds-r/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Copyright: | see file inst/COPYRIGHTS for bundled 'JavaScript' library
copyrights and licenses psychds copyright details |
| URL: | https://psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/, https://github.com/psych-ds/psychds-r |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| SystemRequirements: | Node.js (>= 18.0.0) |
| Language: | en-US |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | psychds results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | psychds.html , psychds.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Creating Data Dictionaries (source, R code) Getting Started with psychds (source, R code) Using the Shiny Application (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | psychds_0.1.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available |
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