apiData: Query data from an API

In umatter/RWebData: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web

Description

A high-level function that automates the querying and extraction of data from a web API.

Usage

apiData(x, shortnames=FALSE, method="RWebData", alignVariables=FALSE)

Arguments

x	an apirequest object
shortnames	logical, indicating whether the resulting tables (data frames) should have short variable names (default is FALSE, variable names contain nesting hierarchy)
method	character, either "RWebData", "jsonlite", or "XML2R"
alignVariables	logical, indicating whether variables/values should be rearranged in case the raw data was malformed (missing variable names)

Value

an apidata-object containing the returned data in a flat representation

Examples

## Not run: apidata <- apiData(x) 

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