sofa: Connector to 'CouchDB'

Provides an interface to the 'NoSQL' database 'CouchDB' (<https://couchdb.apache.org/>). Methods are provided for managing databases within 'CouchDB', including creating/deleting/updating/transferring, and managing documents within databases. One can connect with a local 'CouchDB' instance, or a remote 'CouchDB' database such as 'IBM Cloudant'. Documents can be inserted directly from vectors, lists, data.frames, and 'JSON'. Targeted at 'CouchDB' v2 or greater.

Version: 0.4.2
Imports: crul (≥ 0.4.0), jsonlite (≥ 1.5), R6 (≥ 2.2.2), mime
Suggests: testthat, cli, knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-07-21
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.sofa
Author: Yaoxiang Li ORCID iD [aut, cre], Eduard Szöcs ORCID iD [aut], Scott Chamberlain ORCID iD [aut], rOpenSci ROR ID [fnd]
Maintainer: Yaoxiang Li <liyaoxiang at outlook.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/sofa/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/ropensci/sofa, https://docs.ropensci.org/sofa/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: sofa results

Documentation:

Reference manual: sofa.html , sofa.pdf
Vignettes: CouchDB Queries (source, R code)
sofa introduction (source)

Downloads:

Package source: sofa_0.4.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: sofa_0.4.2.zip, r-release: sofa_0.4.0.zip, r-oldrel: sofa_0.4.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): sofa_0.4.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): sofa_0.4.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): sofa_0.4.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): sofa_0.4.2.tgz
Old sources: sofa archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: nodbi

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