Acknowledgements

R for the Built Environment would not exist without the work of many individuals and organisations who generously share their time, code, and knowledge.

AutoDesk designed and maintains the AutoDesk Platform Services (APS) APIs and provides extensive developer documentation, sample code, and a free tier that makes experimentation accessible to individuals and small teams. The quality of their API design made it possible to wrap APS in a concise R interface.

The R community — CRAN maintainers, package authors, and the broader community of practitioners who publish tutorials, answer questions, and review code provides the foundation on which AutoDeskR is built. In particular, the httr2 and jsonlite packages handle the HTTP and JSON plumbing that underlies every API call in this package.

Posit (formerly RStudio) develops and maintains Quarto, the publishing system used to produce this book, as well as the devtools, usethis, and roxygen2 packages that are central to R package development.

Contributors to AutoDeskR who have filed issues, suggested improvements, and submitted pull requests on GitHub have shaped the package into what it is today. Their feedback has been invaluable.

Finally, thank you to everyone who has read earlier drafts of this material and offered corrections and suggestions.

How to Cite

If this book or the AutoDeskR package is useful in your work, please consider citing it.

Citing the book:

@book{govan2026builtenv,
  title     = {R for the Built Environment},
  author    = {Paul Govan},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://paulgovan.github.io/AutoDeskR-Book/}
}

APA: Govan, P. (2026). R for the Built Environment. Retrieved from https://paulgovan.github.io/AutoDeskR-Book/

Citing the package:

@manual{R-AutoDeskR,
  title  = {AutoDeskR: An Interface to the AutoDesk Platform Services API},
  author = {Paul Govan},
  year   = {2024},
  note   = {R package},
  url    = {https://github.com/paulgovan/AutoDeskR}
}

APA: Govan, P. (2024). AutoDeskR: An Interface to the AutoDesk Platform Services API [R package]. https://github.com/paulgovan/AutoDeskR

You can also get the package citation directly from R:

citation("AutoDeskR")