tinytrail: Lightweight Auto-Updating Project Tracker and Data Dictionary

Once initialized, the package leaves a 'tiny trail' of human- and AI-readable text that makes it effortless to keep track of small to medium-sized projects. The package is lightweight (hence 'tiny') and maintains a YAML trail file recording which scripts produced which output files. Call tinytrail() once at the top of each script to record metadata, wrap any save call with tinytrail_write() to log the output path, and optionally use tinytrail_dict() to capture a data dictionary for each input data frame.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	yaml
Suggests:	arrow, data.table, ggplot2, haven, jsonlite, kableExtra, knitr, openxlsx, purrr, readr, rmarkdown, rstudioapi, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tinytable, withr, writexl
Published:	2026-07-04
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.tinytrail (may not be active yet)
Author:	Tomas Reivinger [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Tomas Reivinger <tomas.reivinger at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/tinytrail-r/tinytrail/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/tinytrail-r/tinytrail, https://tinytrail-r.github.io/tinytrail/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	tinytrail results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	tinytrail.html , tinytrail.pdf
Vignettes:	Getting started with tinytrail (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	tinytrail_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): tinytrail_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): tinytrail_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): tinytrail_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): tinytrail_0.1.0.tgz

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