New package: RDataGet v0.1.0

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• Registering package: RDataGet
• Repository: https://github.com/frankier/RDataGet.jl
• Created by: @frankier
• Version: v0.1.0
• Commit: 127f38f87b3efba0e599eeff08dd29639a44442d
• Reviewed by: @frankier
• Reference: JuliaPsychometricsBazaar/RDataGet.jl@127f38f#commitcomment-83018784
• Description: Simple Julia library to fetch R dataset from CRAN

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[frankier]

[noblock]

The package name is deliberately a play on RDatasets. Although it has low Damerau-Levenshtein distance, the difference in capitalisation makes clear that this is a different approach that fetches datasets rather than vendoring them.

I certainly don't want to step on any toes regarding RDatasets, and this package is supposed to be complimentary. It seems within JuliaStats it is considered low-priority/feature-complete. See JuliaStats/RDatasets.jl#141 as well a quite a few issues from people who are wanting something else from the package. On the other hand this RDataGet.jl approach could be added to RDatasets, but that would require need RDatasets to have (possibly new) maintainers who want to evolve it.

[frankier]

[noblock]

I would like to go ahead with publishing this package. Perhaps eventually it can make its way into RDatasets.jl directly, but given there is low reviewer capacity in JuliaStats, having a specific package for this for the time being seems like it should probably be okay.