brightspaceR: Access D2L 'Brightspace' Data Sets via the 'BDS' API

Connect to the D2L 'Brightspace' Data Sets ('BDS') API via 'OAuth2', download all available datasets as tidy data frames with proper types, join them using convenience functions that know the foreign key relationships, and analyse student engagement, performance, and retention with ready-made analytics functions.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	cli, config, curl, dplyr, httr2, lubridate, openssl, purrr, readr, rlang, stringr, tibble, tools, utils
Suggests:	httptest2, knitr, pkgdown, rmarkdown, rstudioapi, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr, yaml
Published:	2026-03-12
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.brightspaceR (may not be active yet)
Author:	Peeyoosh Chandra [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Peeyoosh Chandra <pc at strategyandops.co>
BugReports:	https://github.com/pcstrategyandopsco/brightspaceR/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://pcstrategyandopsco.github.io/brightspaceR/, https://github.com/pcstrategyandopsco/brightspaceR
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	brightspaceR results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	brightspaceR.html , brightspaceR.pdf
Vignettes:	Convenience Functions: Joins, Schemas, and Data Wrangling (source, R code) Getting Started with brightspaceR (source, R code) Building an Interactive Dashboard (source, R code) MCP Server: Design and Implementation (source) MCP Server Setup (source, R code) MCP Server Test Script (source) OAuth2 Setup for Brightspace Data Sets (source, R code) Shiny App Example: LMS Explorer (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	brightspaceR_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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