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: 0.4.4
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, knitr, rmarkdown, RSQLite, stringr, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble
Published: 2026-03-18
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.datadiff (may not be active yet)
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
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: datadiff results

Documentation:

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

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Package source: datadiff_0.4.4.tar.gz
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