diff --git a/R-package/.Rbuildignore b/R-package/.Rbuildignore
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+++ b/R-package/.Rbuildignore
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+^.*\.Rproj$
+^\.Rproj\.user$
+^man-roxygen/
diff --git a/R-package/.gitignore b/R-package/.gitignore
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+++ b/R-package/.gitignore
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+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.RData
+.Ruserdata
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/R-package/DESCRIPTION b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
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+Package: tfio
+Type: Package
+Title: Interface to 'TensorFlow IO'
+Version: 0.0.9000
+Authors@R: c(
+  person("Yuan", "Tang", role = c("aut", "cre"),
+         email = "terrytangyuan@gmail.com",
+         comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5243-233X")),
+  person("TensorFlow IO SIG", role = c("aut", "cph"),
+         email = "io@tensorflow.org"),
+  person("RStudio", role = c("cph")),
+  person(family = "TensorFlow Authors", role = c("cph"))
+  )
+Description: Interface to 'TensorFlow IO', Datasets and filesystem extensions maintained by SIG-IO.
+License: Apache License 2.0
+URL: https://github.com/tensorflow/io
+BugReports: https://github.com/tensorflow/io/issues
+SystemRequirements: TensorFlow >= 1.4 (https://www.tensorflow.org/)
+Encoding: UTF-8
+LazyData: true
+Depends:
+    R (>= 3.1)
+Imports:
+    reticulate (>= 1.10), 
+    tensorflow (>= 1.9),
+    tfdatasets (>= 1.9),
+    magrittr,
+    rlang,
+    tidyselect,
+    stats
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+RoxygenNote: 6.1.0
+Suggests:
+    testthat,
+    knitr,
+    tfestimators,
+    keras
+VignetteBuilder: knitr
diff --git a/R-package/NAMESPACE b/R-package/NAMESPACE
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+++ b/R-package/NAMESPACE
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+# Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+
+export("%>%")
+export(install_tensorflow)
+export(tf)
+export(tf_config)
+import(rlang)
+import(tfdatasets)
+import(tidyselect)
+importFrom(magrittr,"%>%")
+importFrom(reticulate,import)
+importFrom(reticulate,py_has_attr)
+importFrom(reticulate,py_last_error)
+importFrom(reticulate,py_str)
+importFrom(reticulate,tuple)
+importFrom(tensorflow,install_tensorflow)
+importFrom(tensorflow,tf)
+importFrom(tensorflow,tf_config)
diff --git a/R-package/R/package.R b/R-package/R/package.R
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+++ b/R-package/R/package.R
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+#' TensorFlow IO API for R
+#'
+#' This library provides an R interface to the
+#' \href{https://github.com/tensorflow/io}{TensorFlow IO} API
+#' that provides datasets and filesystem extensions maintained by SIG-IO.
+#'
+#' @docType package
+#' @name tfio
+NULL
+
+#' @importFrom reticulate py_last_error tuple py_str py_has_attr import
+#' @import tidyselect
+#' @import rlang
+#' @import tfdatasets
+NULL
+
+tfio_lib <- NULL
+
+.onLoad <- function(libname, pkgname) {
+
+  # Delay load handler
+  displayed_warning <- FALSE
+  delay_load <- list(
+
+    priority = 5,
+
+    environment = "r-tensorflow-io",
+
+    on_load = function() {
+      check_tensorflow_version(displayed_warning)
+    },
+
+    on_error = function(e) {
+      stop(tf_config()$error_message, call. = FALSE)
+    }
+  )
+
+  # TODO: This is commented out for now until we add the wrappers.
+  # tfio_lib <<- import("tensorflow_io", delay_load = delay_load)
+
+}
+
+check_tensorflow_version <- function(displayed_warning) {
+  current_tf_ver <- tf_version()
+  required_least_ver <- "1.12"
+  if (current_tf_ver < required_least_ver) {
+    if (!displayed_warning) {
+      message("tfio requires TensorFlow version > ", required_least_ver, " ",
+              "(you are currently running version ", current_tf_ver, ").\n")
+      displayed_warning <<- TRUE
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+.onUnload <- function(libpath) {
+
+}
+
+.onAttach <- function(libname, pkgname) {
+
+}
+
+.onDetach <- function(libpath) {
+
+}
+
+# Reusable function for registering a set of methods with S3 manually. The
+# methods argument is a list of character vectors, each of which has the form
+# c(package, genname, class).
+registerMethods <- function(methods) {
+  lapply(methods, function(method) {
+    pkg <- method[[1]]
+    generic <- method[[2]]
+    class <- method[[3]]
+    func <- get(paste(generic, class, sep = "."))
+    if (pkg %in% loadedNamespaces()) {
+      registerS3method(generic, class, func, envir = asNamespace(pkg))
+    }
+    setHook(
+      packageEvent(pkg, "onLoad"),
+      function(...) {
+        registerS3method(generic, class, func, envir = asNamespace(pkg))
+      }
+    )
+  })
+}
+
diff --git a/R-package/R/reexports.R b/R-package/R/reexports.R
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+++ b/R-package/R/reexports.R
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+#' Pipe operator
+#'
+#' See \code{\link[magrittr]{\%>\%}} for more details.
+#'
+#' @name %>%
+#' @rdname pipe
+#' @keywords internal
+#' @export
+#' @importFrom magrittr %>%
+#' @usage lhs \%>\% rhs
+NULL
+
+#' @importFrom tensorflow tf
+#' @export
+tensorflow::tf
+
+#' @importFrom tensorflow install_tensorflow
+#' @export
+tensorflow::install_tensorflow
+
+#' @importFrom tensorflow tf_config
+#' @export
+tensorflow::tf_config
diff --git a/R-package/README.md b/R-package/README.md
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index 000000000..eb88bb26c
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+++ b/R-package/README.md
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+## R interface to TensorFlow IO
+
+This is the R interface to datasets and filesystem extensions maintained by SIG-IO.
diff --git a/R-package/man/pipe.Rd b/R-package/man/pipe.Rd
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index 000000000..5e85fd0c2
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+++ b/R-package/man/pipe.Rd
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+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/reexports.R
+\name{\%>\%}
+\alias{\%>\%}
+\title{Pipe operator}
+\usage{
+lhs \%>\% rhs
+}
+\description{
+See \code{\link[magrittr]{\%>\%}} for more details.
+}
+\keyword{internal}
diff --git a/R-package/man/reexports.Rd b/R-package/man/reexports.Rd
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+++ b/R-package/man/reexports.Rd
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+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/reexports.R
+\docType{import}
+\name{reexports}
+\alias{reexports}
+\alias{tf}
+\alias{install_tensorflow}
+\alias{tf_config}
+\title{Objects exported from other packages}
+\keyword{internal}
+\description{
+These objects are imported from other packages. Follow the links
+below to see their documentation.
+
+\describe{
+  \item{tensorflow}{\code{\link[tensorflow]{tf}}, \code{\link[tensorflow]{install_tensorflow}}, \code{\link[tensorflow]{tf_config}}}
+}}
+
diff --git a/R-package/man/tfio.Rd b/R-package/man/tfio.Rd
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+++ b/R-package/man/tfio.Rd
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+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/package.R
+\docType{package}
+\name{tfio}
+\alias{tfio}
+\alias{tfio-package}
+\title{TensorFlow IO API for R}
+\description{
+This library provides an R interface to the
+\href{https://github.com/tensorflow/io}{TensorFlow IO} API
+that provides datasets and filesystem extensions maintained by SIG-IO.
+}
diff --git a/R-package/tests/testthat.R b/R-package/tests/testthat.R
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+++ b/R-package/tests/testthat.R
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+library(testthat)
+library(tensorflow)
+library(tfio)
+
+test_check("tfio")
diff --git a/R-package/tests/testthat/test-datasets-ops.R b/R-package/tests/testthat/test-datasets-ops.R
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f21796778
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+++ b/R-package/tests/testthat/test-datasets-ops.R
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+context("TensorFlow IO dataset ops")
+
+source("utils.R")
+
+test_succeeds("All TensorFlow IO dataset ops work", {
+  print("Placeholder for now")
+})
diff --git a/R-package/tests/testthat/utils.R b/R-package/tests/testthat/utils.R
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index 000000000..5cbbab790
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+++ b/R-package/tests/testthat/utils.R
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+library(tensorflow)
+
+skip_if_no_tensorflow <- function(required_version = NULL) {
+  if (!reticulate::py_module_available("tensorflow"))
+    skip("TensorFlow not available for testing")
+  else if (!is.null(required_version)) {
+    if (tensorflow::tf_version() < required_version)
+      skip(sprintf("Required version of TensorFlow (%s) not available for testing",
+                   required_version))
+  }
+}
+
+skip_if_no_tensorflow_io <- function(required_version = NULL) {
+  if (!reticulate::py_module_available("tensorflow_io"))
+    skip("TensorFlow not available for testing")
+}
+
+test_succeeds <- function(desc, expr, required_version = NULL) {
+  test_that(desc, {
+    skip_if_no_tensorflow(required_version)
+    expect_error(force(expr), NA)
+  })
+}
diff --git a/R-package/tfio.Rproj b/R-package/tfio.Rproj
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+++ b/R-package/tfio.Rproj
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+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: Default
+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 2
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: Sweave
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
+
+AutoAppendNewline: Yes
+StripTrailingWhitespace: Yes
+
+BuildType: Package
+PackageUseDevtools: Yes
+PackageInstallArgs: --no-multiarch --with-keep.source
+PackageRoxygenize: rd,collate,namespace
diff --git a/R-package/vignettes/introduction.Rmd b/R-package/vignettes/introduction.Rmd
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+++ b/R-package/vignettes/introduction.Rmd
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+---
+title: "R interface to TensorFlow IO API"
+output: 
+  rmarkdown::html_vignette: default
+vignette: >
+  %\VignetteIndexEntry{Introduction}
+  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
+  %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
+type: docs
+repo: https://github.com/tensorflow/io
+menu:
+  main:
+    name: "Using TensorFlow IO"
+    identifier: "tools-tfio-using"
+    parent: "tfio-top"
+    weight: 10
+---
+
+```{r setup, include=FALSE}
+knitr::opts_chunk$set(eval = FALSE)
+```
+
+## Overview
+
+This is the R interface to datasets and filesystem extensions maintained by SIG-IO.
+
+(TBA)