Get JSON data for requested data resource — get_JSON

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

if (FALSE) {
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)
}