enigma: enigma, an R client for Enigma.io

In enigma: Client for the 'Enigma' 'API'

Description

Enigma holds government data and provides a really nice set of APIs for data, metadata, and stats on each of the datasets. That is, you can request a dataset itself, metadata on the dataset, and summary statistics on the columns of each dataset.

package API

• enigma_data - Fetch and dataset, and filter on columns or rows.

• enigma_metadata - Get metadata on datasets.

• enigma_stats - Get columnwise statistics on datasets.

• enigma_fetch - Get gzipped csv of a dataset. Goes along with enigma_read

• rate_limit - Get columnwise statistics on datasets.

Authentication

An API key is required to use this package. You can supply your key in each function call, or store in your .Renviron file like ENIGMA_KEY=your key), or in your .Rprofile file as options(enigmaKey = "<your key>"), Obtain an API key by creating an account with Enigma at http://enigma.io, then obtain an API key from your account page.

enigma documentation built on May 29, 2017, 12:28 p.m.