Hi Rich, Take a look at the function fromJSON found in the rjson package. Note that the Usage in the help page: ?fromJSON names the second argument 'file' but if you look at the description the argument can be a URL.
HTH, Eric On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) < richard.k.ev...@nasa.gov> wrote: > Hello > > I am able to construct a url that points to some data online in the JSON > format. See an example at [0]. > > I would like to work with this data as a dataframe in R. > > I know that there is a package for handling json data [1] but it assumes > the data is in a local file but It is not clear to me how to request the > data from the web in an R script and get the json data converted into a > data frame in R. > > Can anyone provide a basic example or some guidance please? > > -Rich (revansx) > > [0] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/w/api.php? > action=ask&query=[[Category:City]]&format=json > [1] https://www.tutorialspoint.com/r/r_json_files.htm > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
