PX-WEB API Interface for R

This R package provides tools to access PX-WEB API. Your contributions and bug reports and other feedback are welcome!

Available data sources and tools

Installation (Installation)
Examples (Examples)

A number of organizations use to distribute hierarchical data. You can browse the available data sets at:

Installation

Install the stable release version in R:

install.packages("pxweb")

Test the installation by loading the library:

library(pxweb)

We also recommend setting the UTF-8 encoding:

Sys.setlocale(locale = "UTF-8")

Examples

Some examples on using the R tools to fetch px-web API data.

Listing available database parameters

library(pxweb)
print(api_parameters())

## [[1]]
## api:         pxwebapi2.stat.fi
## limit(s):    30 calls per 10 sec. 
##              Max 100000 values per call.
## version(s):  v1 
## language(s): fi 
## base url:
##  http://pxwebapi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/api/[version]/[lang]/StatFin 
## 
## [[2]]
## api:         api.scb.se
## limit(s):    30 calls per 10 sec. 
##              Max 100000 values per call.
## version(s):  v1 
## language(s): sv, en 
## base url:
##  http://api.scb.se/OV0104/[version]/doris/[lang]/ssd

Fetching data from Statistics Finland PX-WEB API:

Interactive API query (not run):

baseURL <- base_url("statfi", "v1", "fi")
d <- interactive_pxweb(baseURL)

Licensing and Citations

This work can be freely used, modified and distributed under the open license specified in the DESCRIPTION file.

Kindly cite the work as follows

citation("pxweb")

## 
## Kindly cite the pxweb R package as follows:
## 
##   (C) Mans Magnusson, Leo Lahti and Love Hansson (rOpenGov 2014).
##   pxweb: R tools for PX-WEB API.  URL:
##   http://github.com/ropengov/pxweb
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Misc{,
##     title = {pxweb: R tools for PX-WEB API},
##     author = {Mans Magnusson and Leo Lahti and Love Hansson},
##     year = {2014},
##   }

Session info

This vignette was created with

sessionInfo()

## R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
## Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit)
## 
## locale:
## [1] sv_SE.UTF-8/sv_SE.UTF-8/sv_SE.UTF-8/C/sv_SE.UTF-8/sv_SE.UTF-8
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
## 
## other attached packages:
## [1] pxweb_0.3.50 knitr_1.5   
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] data.table_1.9.2 evaluate_0.5.5   formatR_0.10     httr_0.3        
##  [5] plyr_1.8.1       Rcpp_0.11.1      RCurl_1.95-4.1   reshape2_1.4    
##  [9] RJSONIO_1.2-0.2  stringr_0.6.2    tools_3.1.0