Package: rcldf 1.6.2

rcldf: Read Linguistic Data in the Cross Linguistic Data Format (CLDF)

Cross-Linguistic Data Format (CLDF) is a framework for storing cross-linguistic data, ensuring compatibility and ease of data exchange between different linguistic datasets see Forkel et al. (2018) <doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.205>. The 'rcldf' package is designed to facilitate the manipulation and analysis of these datasets by simplifying the loading, querying, and visualisation of CLDF datasets making it easier to conduct comparative linguistic analyses, manage language data, and apply statistical methods directly within R.

Authors:Simon J. Greenhill [aut, cre]

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# Install 'rcldf' in R:

install.packages('rcldf', repos = c('https://simongreenhill.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/simongreenhill/rcldf/issues

On CRAN:

cldf

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Exports:as.cldf.wide cldf datasets datatype_to_type get_cache_dir get_cldf_colname get_details get_dir_size get_filename get_foreign_keys get_separators get_table_from get_tablename is_github is_url list_cache_files load_clts load_concepticon load_dataset load_dplace load_glottolog make_cache_key nullify plot_languages plot_parameter plot_word read_bib resolve_path schema separate set_cache_dir subset_cldf

Dependencies:archive askpass base64enc bib2df bit bit64 bslib cachem class classInt cli clipr cpp11 crayon crosstalk csvwr curl DBI digest dplyr e1071 evaluate farver fastmap fontawesome fs generics glue highr hms htmltools htmlwidgets httr humaniformat jquerylib jsonlite KernSmooth knitr labeling lattice lazyeval leaflet leaflet.providers lifecycle logger magrittr MASS memoise mime openssl pillar pkgconfig png prettyunits progress proxy purrr R6 rappdirs raster RColorBrewer Rcpp readr remotes rlang rmarkdown s2 sass scales sf sp stringi stringr sys terra tibble tidyselect tinytex triebeard tzdb units urltools utf8 vctrs versionsort viridisLite vroom withr wk xfun yaml

Using rcldf to work with Cross-Linguistic Data Format datasets

Rendered fromusing-rcldf.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-07-03
Started: 2025-09-13

Help page	Topics
Adds a dataframe.	add_dataframe
Extracts a CLDF table as a 'wide' dataframe by resolving all foreign key links	as.cldf.wide
Reads a Cross-Linguistic Data Format dataset into an object.	cldf read_cldf
Coalesce value to truthiness	coalesce_truth
Returns a table of datasets available in cldf_meta	datasets
Map csvw datatypes to R types	datatype_to_type
CSVW default dialect	default_dialect
Create a default table schema given a csv file and dialect	default_schema
Returns the cache dir.	get_cache_dir
Get the Column Name for a CLDF Property	get_cldf_colname
Returns a dataframe of with details on the CLDF dataset in 'path'.	get_details
Returns the filesize in bytes of a directory.	get_dir_size
Get a filename from url value in metadata (handles .zip files)	get_filename
Returns a table of the foreign keys in a CLDF dataset.	get_foreign_keys
Downloads and installs a CLDF dataset from a Zenodo endpoint	get_from_zenodo
Identifies the separator characters specified by the CLDF metadata.	get_separators
Extracts a single table from a CLDF dataset.	get_table_from
Convert a CLDF URL tablename to a short tablename	get_tablename
Returns TRUE if 'url' looks like a github URL	is_github
Returns TRUE if 'url' looks like a URL	is_url
Returns a dataframe of directories in the cache dir	list_cache_files
Returns a CLDF dataset object of the latest CLTS version.	load_clts
Returns a CLDF dataset object of the latest Concepticon version.	load_concepticon
Load a CLDF dataset by name and version	load_dataset
Returns a CLDF dataset object of the latest D-PLACE version.	load_dplace
Returns a CLDF dataset object of the latest glottolog version.	load_glottolog
Returns the cachekey for the given path.	make_cache_key
Converts all values specified in the CLDF metadata as 'null' to R's 'NA'.	nullify
Plot CLDF Languages on an Interactive Map	plot_languages
Plot Distribution of a Specific Parameter	plot_parameter
Plot Words/Forms as Text Labels on a Map	plot_word
Summarises the CLDF file	print.cldf
Prints a CLDF schema	print.cldf_schema
Load and access bibliographic sources from a CLDF dataset	read_bib
Relabels a column in a dataset for merging.	relabel
Helper function to resolve the path (e.g. directory or md.json file)	resolve_path
Visualize CLDF Dataset Schema	schema
Expands all values with separators.	separate
Sets the cache dir for the current session.	set_cache_dir
Subset a CLDF object with Cascading Filters	subset_cldf
Summarises the CLDF file	summary.cldf
Updates a table 'tbl' based on expression 'e'.	update_table

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rcldf: Read Linguistic Data in the Cross Linguistic Data Format (CLDF)

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