Load data from the Government of India API.

fetch_data is the main function from this package to load the entire data set from the Government of India API.

Usage

fetch_data(
  res_id,
  filter = NULL,
  select = NULL,
  sort = NULL,
  field_type_correction = TRUE,
  max_obs = 500
)

res_id: a string, JSON data resource id
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" = "order"
field_type_correction: boolean, whether to apply field type correction. All data fields are downloaded as character and then corrected (if at all) based on accompanying metadata
max_obs: an integer, specifying maximum no of observations to fetch (will be rounded UP to the nearest 100)

list a list of 2 elements - data from the Government of India API, and metadata, additional information about the fields