| Type: | Package |
| Title: | ProPublica API Client |
| Version: | 0.1.3 |
| Date: | 2015-12-22 |
| Maintainer: | Thomas J. Leeper <thosjleeper@gmail.com> |
| Imports: | jsonlite, httr, curl |
| Description: | Client for accessing data journalism APIs from ProPublica http://www.propublica.org/. |
| License: | GPL-2 |
| URL: | https://github.com/rOpenGov/RPublica |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/rOpenGov/RPublica/issues |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2015-12-22 08:08:22 UTC; Thomas |
| Author: | Thomas J. Leeper [aut, cre], Jeroen Ooms [ctb] |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2015-12-22 14:36:42 |
ProPublica API Client
Description
Client for accessing ProPublica's data journalism APIs.
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper
Maintainer: Thomas J. Leeper <thosjleeper@gmail.com>
References
APIs:
Retrieve committees or committee
Description
Retrieve available committees, or a specific committee
Usage
committee(slug = NULL, ...)
Arguments
slug |
An optional character string containing a “slug” referring to a political committee. |
... |
Arguments passed to |
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper
Examples
## Not run: committee('obama-for-america')
Retrieve filing
Description
Retrieve a specific filing, by ID
Usage
filing(id, ...)
Arguments
id |
A character string containing a filing identification number. |
... |
Arguments passed to |
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper
Examples
## Not run: filing(51212)
Forensics API
Description
Retrieve details about a given state or system
Usage
geos(state=NULL, ...)
systems(id, ...)
Arguments
state |
An optional character string containing a two-letter state postal code. If |
id |
The identification number for a particular medical examiner or coroner system. |
... |
Arguments passed to |
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper
References
Examples
## Not run: geos('ny')
## Not run: systems(36)
Retrieve market or markets
Description
Retrieve available markets, or a specific market
Usage
market(slug = NULL, ...)
Arguments
slug |
An optional character string containing a “slug” referring to a media market. |
... |
Arguments passed to |
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper
Examples
## Not run: market('new-york')
Nonprofit Explorer
Description
Search for and retrieve nonprofit data
Usage
np_search(q=NULL, order=NULL, sort=NULL, state=NULL, ntee=NULL, subsection=NULL, ...)
np_org(ein, ...)
Arguments
q |
A character string containing a search query. |
order |
A character string containing a field by which to order the results. One of “name”, “city”, “state”, “c_code”, “fiscalyr”, “revenue”, “expenses”, “assets”, “liabilities”, “pct_officer_compt”. The ascending or descending sort by this parameter is controlled by |
sort |
One of “asc” or “desc”, controlling the order of the results (according the the ordering given in |
state |
A two-letter state postal abbreviation code for a U.S. state or territory. Use “ZZ” for foreign organizations. |
ntee |
A numeric value (between 1 and 10) containing a National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) Major Group code. |
subsection |
A numeric value (between 2 and 92) referring to a subsection of tax code section 501(c). |
ein |
An employer identification number (EIN). |
... |
Arguments passed to |
Value
A list containing the API response.
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper
References
Examples
## Not run: np_search('propublica')
## Not run: np_org(142007220)
API Query
Description
Execute an API query
Usage
ppQuery(op, baseurl, args = NULL, ...)
Arguments
op |
A character string containing an API operation, and associated arguments. |
baseurl |
The base URL for conducting the API query. |
args |
A character string containing additional URL-encoded parameters. |
... |
Arguments passed to |
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper
Retrieve station
Description
Retrieve station
Usage
station(callsign, ...)
Arguments
callsign |
A character string containing a station callsign. |
... |
Arguments passed to |
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper
Examples
## Not run: station('WEWS-TV')