datadiff: Data Validation Based on 'YAML' Rules

A comprehensive data validation package that allows comparing datasets using configurable validation rules defined in 'YAML' files. Built on top of the 'pointblank' package for robust data validation, it supports exact matching, tolerance-based numeric comparisons, text normalization, and row count validation.

Version: 0.5.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: dplyr (≥ 1.0.0), pointblank (≥ 0.12.3), rlang (≥ 0.4.0), stats, tidyselect (≥ 1.0.0), utils, yaml (≥ 2.2.0)
Suggests: arrow, DBI, dbplyr, duckdb, gt, knitr, rmarkdown, RSQLite, stringr, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble
Published: 2026-06-18
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.datadiff
Author: Vincent Guyader ORCID iD [cre, aut], ThinkR [cph], Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation [spn]
Maintainer: Vincent Guyader <vincent at thinkr.fr>
BugReports: https://github.com/ThinkR-open/datadiff/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/ThinkR-open/datadiff
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: datadiff results

Documentation:

Reference manual: datadiff.html , datadiff.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to datadiff (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: datadiff_0.5.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: datadiff_0.4.4.zip, r-release: datadiff_0.4.4.zip, r-oldrel: datadiff_0.4.4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): datadiff_0.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): datadiff_0.5.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): datadiff_0.4.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): datadiff_0.5.0.tgz
Old sources: datadiff archive

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