The gedcompendium • tidyged

Introduction

The tidyged package is the core package of the gedcompendium ecosystem of packages.

The gedcompendium is being developed in three phases:

The tidyged package has a dependency on the tidyged.internals package, which contains the codification of the GEDCOM 5.5.5 specification. The user is kept away from the complexity of this infrastructure, and instead interacts with various wrapper functions found in the tidyged package. There is also a dependency on the tidyged.io package which is used for importing GEDCOM files and exporting tidyged objects as GEDCOM files. The tidyged.utils package has a number of additional functions to help maintain and clean GEDCOM files.
The tidyged package is intended to be used interactively at the console or in scripts. However its utility is somewhat limited by the lack of an interactive interface. The longer term plan is for the shinyged package to provide a shiny interface. This will also enable the autoged package to allow an evidence-driven approach to record facts from source documents.
There are also packages used to generate visualisations and RMarkdown-based reports of the content of GEDCOM files; visged and geddown.

Phase 1 is almost complete. Phase 2 will begin in mid-2021. It will probably take until around 2023 for me to finish it all.