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license: Apache-2.0
title: 'fathom: Look Before You Parse'
version: 0.0.1
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.fathom
abstract: One small vocabulary for seeing what is in a JSON document and getting a
  table out of it, spelled the same way in R and in Python. You point it at a document
  you have never seen and it reports whether the file is sound, what shapes it holds,
  and what one row could be, with every candidate priced. Output is proportional to
  the structure rather than to the data, so a 912 MB file and a 12 KB file produce
  descriptions of similar size. The package is a thin wrapper around the 'fathom'
  engine, which it invokes as a subprocess; the engine is compiled and bundled at
  install time, so an installed copy is self-contained and needs nothing else.
authors:
- name: psychometrician
  email: psychometrician@gmail.com
repository: https://psychometrician.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/psychometrician/fathom
commit: 32da152cc87183c2752f30f2118cf1248fdaf470
url: https://psychometrician.github.io/fathom-book/
date-released: '2026-08-20'
contact:
- name: psychometrician
  email: psychometrician@gmail.com