{"repo":"ropensci/ckanr","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/ropensci/ckanr","clone":"git clone https://github.com/ropensci/ckanr.git","description":"R client for the CKAN API","language":"R","stars":101,"topics":["ckan-api","ckan","api-wrapper","open-data","r","rstats","r-package"],"license":null,"category":"api-integrations-sdks","readme_excerpt":"ckanr ===== ckanr is an R client package for the CKAN API, enabling R users to interact with CKAN data portals for reading, writing, and managing datasets. The package wraps the entire CKAN REST API with R functions organized by resource type (packages, resources, organizations, groups, users, tags). Description CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers hundreds of data portals worldwide. ckanr allows users to interact with those CKAN websites to create, modify, and manage datasets, as well as search and download pre-existing data, and then to proceed using in R for data analysis (stats/plotting/etc.). It is meant to be as general as possible, allowing you to work with any CKAN instance. ckanr works for and is tested against - the CKAN v2.11 API, - the CKAN v2.10 API, and - the CKAN v2.9 API. ckanr may work with older and newer CKAN versions. Get started: Installation Stable CRAN version Development version Note: the default base CKAN URL is set to Functions requiring write permissions in CKAN additionally require a privileged CKAN API key. You can change this using ckanr setup() , or change the URL using the url parameter in each function call. To set one or both, run: ckanr package API There are a suite of CKAN things (package, resource, etc.) that each have a set of functions in this package. The functions for each CKAN thing have an S3 class that is returned fro","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/ropensci","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/ropensci/ckanr/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}