openPoland

An R package for communication with OpenPoland.net API - a gate to open data in Poland

Kamil Wais

The package home page (in Polish):
http://www.wais.kamil.rzeszow.pl/openpoland

Here is the package tutorial (in Polish):
http://www.wais.kamil.rzeszow.pl/pakiet-r-openpoland-tutorial/

Information about the openPoland.net project and documentation of the API: http://openPoland.net

Description

With openPoland package you can easily access milions records in more thosands datasets of open data generated in institutions like Central Statistical Office of Poland. The access to open data is available via openPoland.net API.

Installing the package

Stable version from CRAN

Not yet, but this is the goal. Please see below for code that let you install the package from GitHub.

Developer version from GitHub

Remember to install devtools package first!

# install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github("kalimu/openPoland")

library(openPoland)

Registering for a token

You need to have a token to get an authorized acces do openPoland database via API. To get a token you need only to register at https://openpoland.net/signup/.

What's new?

news(package = 'openPoland')

See help in R/Rstudio

help(package = 'openPoland')
?openPolandSearch
?openPolandMeta
?openPolandData
?openPolandFilter

How to contribute to the package (bugs, new functionalities)?

Fork git repo https://github.com/kalimu/openPoland and submit a pull request.

How to contact the package's author?

You can use the contact form here: http://www.wais.kamil.rzeszow.pl/kontakt/

How to cite the package?

citation('openPoland')