Tools for Creating and Manipulating RO-Crates R package rocrateR version 0.1.0 Provides tools for creating, manipulating and reading Research Object Crates (RO-Crates), a lightweight approach to packaging research data with structured metadata. Includes utilities for metadata generation, entity management, validation and reading existing RO-Crates following the specification <https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.2/>. Software Depends: R (>= 4.1.0) Imports: digest, jsonlite, lifecycle, zip Suggests: fs, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (>= 3.0.0) Roberto Villegas-Diaz <r.villegas-diaz@outlook.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Roberto Villegas-Diaz [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5036-8661>), Rebecca Wilson [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2294-593X>), Olly Butters [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0354-8461>), Stuart Wheater [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2419-1964>), Research Object community [cph] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rocrateR/LICENSE) 2026-04-08 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rocrateR doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.rocrateR en-GB