getTabularData: Get web data in tabular form (data frames)
In umatter/RWebData: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web
Description
Usage
Arguments
Value
Examples
View source: R/getTabularData.R
Description
A high-level function that directly queries and transforms data from any web API to a data frame or list of data frames.
Usage
1
getTabularData(x, base.url, shortnames=TRUE, alignVariables=FALSE)
Arguments
x
either a charachter string containing the whole url for the request or a named list
containing the parameter names and values (see details)
base.url
a character string containing the basic url for the api
shortnames
logical, indicating whether the resulting tables (data frames) should have
short variable names (default is FALSE, variable names contain nesting hierarchy)
alignVariables
logical, indicating whether variables/values should be rearranged in case the raw data was malformed (missing variable names)
Value
a list of data-frames, containing the returned data in a flat representation
Examples
1
## Not run: apidata <- getTabularData(x)
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Description Usage Arguments Value Examples
View source: R/getTabularData.R
Description
A high-level function that directly queries and transforms data from any web API to a data frame or list of data frames.
Usage
1 | getTabularData(x, base.url, shortnames=TRUE, alignVariables=FALSE)
|
Arguments
x |
either a charachter string containing the whole url for the request or a named list containing the parameter names and values (see details) |
base.url |
a character string containing the basic url for the api |
shortnames |
logical, indicating whether the resulting tables (data frames) should have short variable names (default is FALSE, variable names contain nesting hierarchy) |
alignVariables |
logical, indicating whether variables/values should be rearranged in case the raw data was malformed (missing variable names) |
Value
a list of data-frames, containing the returned data in a flat representation
Examples
1 | ## Not run: apidata <- getTabularData(x)
|
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