README.md

In Big-Life-Lab/openottawar: Download Open Ottawa Data

openottawar

An R package to retreive CSV data from Open Ottawa.

This minimal package:

• Retrieves a CVS file from https://open.ottawa.ca.
• Returns the file as a dataframe as well as saving the file.

Installation

The openottawar package is currently avaialable only on GitHub. Download and install the package using remotes or devtools.

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("big-life-lab/openottawar")

Usage

This package downloads CSV data on the Open Ottawa website and saves it as a CSV. CSV data is identifed using the website URL ending.

For example, the covid-19 hospital data for Ottawa residents is found at: `https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/covid-19-hospitalization-data-for-ottawa-residents'

# Retrive covid-19 hosptial data for Ottawa residents
library(openottawar)

# Download hospital data and save it as new_data.csv
new_data <- get_open_ottawa(
    url_end = "covid-19-hospitalization-data-for-ottawa-residents", 
    file_dest = paste0(getwd(), 
    "/new_data.csv"))

Licence

The code of this package is licenced under MIT licence. Data retrieved from Open Ottawa is subject to Open Ottawa data licence.

Contributing

Issues and Pull requests are appreciated.

Roadmap

Open Ottawa is changing quickly. We are considering switching to the API format once the site stablizes.

Big-Life-Lab/openottawar documentation built on June 28, 2020, 4:03 p.m.