get_JSON_doc: Get JSON data for requested data resource

In steadyfish/ogdindiar: API Access to Datasets on Open Government Data - India Portal

Description

get_JSON_doc will return infomation about the requested resource. Ideally, will be just used internally.

Usage

get_JSON_doc(link = "https://data.gov.in/api/datastore/resource.json?",
  res_id, offset, no_elements, filter, select, sort, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

link	a string, general JSON data link
res_id	a string, JSON data resource id
offset	an integer, offset of 1 corresponds to 100 elements
no_elements	an integer, no of elements to download a value between 1 to 100
filter	a named vector, specifying equality constrainsts of the form "variable" = "condition"
select	a vector, specifying variables/fields to be selected
sort	a named vector, specifying sort order in the form "variable" = "asc"
verbose	a boolean, specifying whether to print verbose messages

Value

JSON data object i.e. a list

Examples

## Not run: 
library(RCurl)
library(RJSONIO)
# Return 100 elements from a hotels data resource
JSON_doc = get_JSON_doc(link="http://data.gov.in/api/datastore/resource.json?",
   res_id="0749068c-a590-4a07-a571-e9df5dddcc8a",
   offset=0,
   no_elements=100)

## End(Not run)

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