[openspending-dev] [okfn-labs] r-openspending a R package to access the OpenSpending API

Mon Aug 26 13:09:41 UTC 2013

Hi Felix,

Really great stuff! Just looping the OpenSpending dev list into this
conversation as well.

Anders

On 26 August 2013 06:03, José Félix Ontañón <felixonta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Didn't realized r-openspending actually provides some functions for
> casting openspending data into a data.frame.
> It works great!
>
> Here's an use case: merging two OpenSpending datasets to compare income
> budgets
> https://gist.github.com/fontanon/6341178
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> 2013/8/15 José Félix Ontañón <felixonta at gmail.com>
>
>> Really awsome Michael, can't wait to test it.
>> I've saw you're planning to get it into CRAN: good point.
>>
>> Does it download openspending data as data.frame R object?
>> This is one of best objects for dealing with data that R can provide.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> 2013/8/14 Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Tonight, after chatting with Tony and Neil I decided to go ahead and
>>> create
>>> my first R package: a package to access OpenSpending datasets using R -
>>> this can be used to explore, analyze and visualize OpenSpending datasets
>>> in
>>> R.
>>>
>>> Github repo is here: https://github.com/mihi-tr/r-openspending
>>>
>>> Blog post is upcoming.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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