Introduction to rspacer

The hardware and bandwidth for this mirror is donated by dogado GmbH, the Webhosting and Full Service-Cloud Provider. Check out our Wordpress Tutorial.
If you wish to report a bug, or if you are interested in having us mirror your free-software or open-source project, please feel free to contact us at mirror[@]dogado.de.

The goal of rspacer is to “wrap” the RSpace API, that is, allow you to use the API directly from R using convenience functions.

This package (and its documentation) is a work-in-progress. Contributions are welcome!

Setting up rspacer

To use rspacer it needs to know two things:

The API URL for your RSpace instance (this is typically the URL of your RSpace instance followed by api/v1, e.g., https://leiden.researchspace.com/api/v1)
Your API key, which is an authentication token you can use instead of your username and password. To create an API key go to ‘Manage API Key’ section of your RSpace profile page (MyRSpace -> My Profile). You should keep your API key private. You can regenerate an API key at any time, which will invalidate the old key.

You can use the set_api_url() and set_api_key() functions to make these available to rspacer in the current session. To make this information persistent you can store it in environment variables. An easy way to do this is with usethis::edit_r_environ(); in the file that opens, you should add the following lines (insert your own URL and key):

RSPACE_API_URL="https://leiden.researchspace.com/api/v1"
RSPACE_API_KEY="<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>"

After saving the file and restarting R, you should now be able to run

library(rspacer)
api_status()

## $message
## [1] "OK"
## 
## $rspaceVersion
## [1] "1.109.2"

Functionality

Folders

Now you can use rspacer to interact with your RSpace Workspace. For example, folder_tree() will show you the content of your Workspace as a tibble:

folder_tree()

## # A tibble: 10 × 9
##        id globalId name                   created          lastModified parentFolderId type  `_links` owner       
##     <int> <chr>    <chr>                  <chr>            <chr>                 <int> <chr> <list>   <list>      
##  1 356307 SD356307 Gerhard Burger         2024-01-17T14:5… 2024-01-17T…           7813 DOCU… <list>   <named list>
##  2 260004 FL260004 LACDR RDM              2023-11-06T10:1… 2023-11-06T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
##  3 242175 FL242175 GABi001_EMP_regulation 2023-05-30T10:1… 2023-06-14T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
##  4 242400 FL242400 Ontologies             2023-06-01T07:2… 2023-06-01T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
##  5 242398 FL242398 Api Inbox              2023-06-01T07:2… 2023-06-01T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
##  6 242182 FL242182 Publications           2023-05-30T11:0… 2023-05-30T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
##  7  21961 FL21961  DDS2 Data management   2023-03-16T09:5… 2023-03-16T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
##  8   7833 FL7833   Templates              2022-12-22T12:3… 2022-12-22T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
##  9   7819 GF7819   Gallery                2022-12-22T12:3… 2022-12-22T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
## 10   7814 FL7814   Shared                 2022-12-22T12:3… 2022-12-22T…           7813 FOLD… <list>   <named list>

You can also specify an id or Unique ID (globalId) to show the contents of a specific folder:

folder_tree(7819)

## # A tibble: 8 × 9
##      id globalId name          created                  lastModified    parentFolderId type  `_links` owner       
##   <int> <chr>    <chr>         <chr>                    <chr>                    <int> <chr> <list>   <list>      
## 1  7828 GF7828   Snippets      2022-12-22T12:32:22.318Z 2022-12-22T12:…           7819 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
## 2  7827 GF7827   PdfDocuments  2022-12-22T12:32:22.315Z 2022-12-22T12:…           7819 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
## 3  7826 GF7826   Miscellaneous 2022-12-22T12:32:22.311Z 2022-12-22T12:…           7819 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
## 4  7825 GF7825   Documents     2022-12-22T12:32:22.308Z 2022-12-22T12:…           7819 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
## 5  7824 GF7824   Chemistry     2022-12-22T12:32:22.304Z 2022-12-22T12:…           7819 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
## 6  7823 GF7823   Videos        2022-12-22T12:32:22.301Z 2022-12-22T12:…           7819 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
## 7  7822 GF7822   Audios        2022-12-22T12:32:22.297Z 2022-12-22T12:…           7819 FOLD… <list>   <named list>
## 8  7820 GF7820   Images        2022-12-22T12:32:22.290Z 2022-12-22T12:…           7819 FOLD… <list>   <named list>

Documents

Retrieve

You can retrieve documents using

res <- document_retrieve("SD356307")
summary(res)

##                Length Class  Mode     
## id              1     -none- numeric  
## globalId        1     -none- character
## name            1     -none- character
## created         1     -none- character
## lastModified    1     -none- character
## parentFolderId  1     -none- numeric  
## signed          1     -none- logical  
## tags            0     -none- NULL     
## tagMetaData     0     -none- NULL     
## form           10     -none- list     
## owner          10     -none- list     
## fields          8     -none- list     
## _links          1     -none- list

The result is json converted to an R list, to get the field information you could use

library(tidyverse)
tibble(fields = res$fields) |>
  unnest_wider(fields) |>
  select(name, type, content)

## # A tibble: 8 × 3
##   name          type   content                                                                                    
##   <chr>         <chr>  <chr>                                                                                      
## 1 Template Used string "LACDR-ISA - Contact v0.2.0"                                                               
## 2 Name          string "Gerhard A. Burger"                                                                        
## 3 Email         string "g.a.burger@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl"                                                           
## 4 Phone         string ""                                                                                         
## 5 ORCID         string "0000-0003-1062-5576"                                                                      
## 6 Address       text   "<p><a href=\"https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/locations/gorlaeus-building\">Gorlaeus …
## 7 Affiliation   string "Leiden University"                                                                        
## 8 Roles         text   ""

Create

Creating (structured) documents is slightly more involved, see the Articles tab for more info.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
Health stats visible at Monitor.