A R package to interface with OpenSpending

Goal: get this into CRAN - so long Status: Submitted to CRAN waiting for inclusion/approval

Installation

clone from github, then:

R CMD INSTALL r-openspending

Requires

• RCurl
• rjson

If present parallel will be used to paralellize aggregateTree.

Usage

require(ropenspending)

data=openspending.aggregate("medientransparenz-at",cut="time.year:2012",drilldown=c("medium","from"))
df=openspending.as.data.frame(data)
df[["amount"]]

For mor examples check the examples/ directory or ?openspending

Contributing

Contributions are highly welcome. Documentation is autogenerated using roxygen2. Please have a look at the examples in R/r-openspending.R. Before you issue a pull request do the following (the working directory is the parent directory of the repository):

In R:

require("roxygen2")
roxygenize("r-openspending")

In your shell:

R CMD build r-openspending
cp ropenspending_VERSION.tar.gz /tmp
cd /tmp
tar -xvzf ropenspending_VERSION.tar.gz
R CMD check --as-cran ropenspending

Were VERSION is the developing version of r-openspending. Make sure no WARNINGs, NOTEs or ERRORs pop up. Only then can the package be submitted to CRAN.