frontmatter: Parse Front Matter from Documents
Extracts and parses structured metadata ('YAML' or 'TOML')
from the beginning of text documents. Front matter is a common pattern
in 'Quarto' documents, 'R Markdown' documents, static site generators,
documentation systems, content management tools and even 'Python' and
'R' scripts where metadata is placed at the top of a document,
separated from the main content by delimiter fences.
| Version: |
0.1.0 |
| Imports: |
cpp11, rlang, tomledit, yaml12 |
| LinkingTo: |
cpp11 |
| Suggests: |
testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr, yaml |
| Published: |
2026-01-14 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.frontmatter (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Garrick Aden-Buie 
[aut, cre],
Posit Software, PBC  [cph,
fnd] |
| Maintainer: |
Garrick Aden-Buie <garrick at posit.co> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/posit-dev/frontmatter/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/posit-dev/frontmatter,
https://posit-dev.github.io/frontmatter/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
frontmatter results |
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