R package for accessing data.gov.au open data sets via API

[jonocarroll]

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I've worked with some data sets from data.gov.au and noticed that they do have a CKAN API that I can't immediately find any R package associated with (most happy to be corrected).

GET http://www.data.gov.au/api/3/action/group_list

The data is mostly well-organised with attached metadata, various formats, and proper attributions to the relevant department. It's an under-utilised resource as far as I can tell, and there are currently big pushes to better use this (e.g. GovHack challenges).

This doesn't immediately strike me as an insurmountable task (just watch, it will prove me wrong) but one that would have a pretty good payoff in data availability.

[njtierney]

Great idea!

[Stephen-Gates]

This will probably do the trick https://github.com/ropensci/ckanr

[jonocarroll]

Nice, half-way there already!

I'm starting this one up either way.

[jonocarroll]

I'm still interested in this project too, in case anyone would like to work on it with me.

Some reading to get the juices flowing...

https://blogstats.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/next-step-in-ogd-websites/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-s-wrong-with-open-data-sites-and-how-we-can-fix-them/

http://datausa.io/about/datasets/

and ties in with #23. I would love to see a shiny version of this for Aus data. How cool would that be?!?!

Put a watch alert on https://github.com/jonocarroll/RDataGovAU if you're keen on working on this.