Software

bidser

CRAN

BIDS dataset reading and navigation tools

Installinstall.packages('bidser')
Documentation Source on GitHub

Overview

bidser provides tools for reading, navigating, and querying datasets organized according to the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard. It offers a clean interface for traversing the BIDS directory hierarchy, extracting subject and session metadata, and locating files by their BIDS entities. Available on CRAN, bidser integrates well with downstream neuroimaging analysis pipelines.

Key Features

  • BIDS directory parsing and hierarchical navigation
  • Subject, session, and run-level file enumeration
  • Metadata extraction from JSON sidecar files
  • Sidecar JSON handling and entity-based queries
  • Integration with neuroimaging analysis pipelines

Development version

The CRAN release is shown above. To install the development version from GitHub:

pak::pak("bbuchsbaum/bidser")