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finlex: Access Open Data from the Finnish 'Finlex' Legislative Database

Provides functions to retrieve and structure Finnish legislative data made available through the 'Finlex' Open Data API (<https://www.finlex.fi/en/open-data>). Functions cover retrieval of statute catalogues, statute titles, structured statute metadata, and cross-references between amending and amended statutes, returned as tidy tibbles for further analysis.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: dplyr, httr2, tibble, xml2
Suggests: spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-07-22
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.finlex (may not be active yet)
Author: Kristian Vepsäläinen [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Kristian Vepsäläinen <kristian.vepsalainen at proton.me>
BugReports: https://github.com/KristianVepsalainen/finlex/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/KristianVepsalainen/finlex
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: finlex results

Documentation:

Reference manual: finlex.html , finlex.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: finlex_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: finlex_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): finlex_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): finlex_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): finlex_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): finlex_0.1.0.tgz

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