François Briatte

Your most basic getters can be coded as calls to a single 'get' function: [here's Polity IV and DPI](https://github.com/briatte/psData/blob/master/R/getters.R), using a generic method. I've added one more function to have...

@leeper: I've adjusted the bottleneck to be soft and let unrecognized URL extensions or abbreviations go through intact. I'm keeping the bottleneck to parse particular formats and try to guess...

@vincentarelbundock the recipe idea is a great one, and the analogy with `homebrew` makes sense. The only downside is what you mention about security, because sandboxing just that is impossible....

@christophergandrud I'm good with all suggestions, will continue development at end of March (writing up before that).

@jrnold don't worry about timing, I forked your repo just a few days ago :) It's likely that my hack of your class can be improved in many ways. Please...

@jrnold thanks for the details — I'll update `psData` to that version of your S4 class next week.

I'm interested in the proposal because I have some experience with legislative data projects like [Parltrack](http://parltrack.euwiki.org/) (EU), [The Public Whip](http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/) (UK) and [Nos Députés](http://www.nosdeputes.fr/) (FR). These are examples of transparency-oriented...

Are the countries listed above still of interest? @ColinFay has coded a few things for __Burkina Faso__: https://github.com/reconhub/covid19hub/issues/5 … and the data does seem to include confirmed cases (not just...

Is this issue still alive? The data source indicated in the script seems alive: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opencovid19-fr/data/master/dist/chiffres-cles.csv It looks like the data can also be accessed from there: https://geodes.santepubliquefrance.fr/#c=news … although I...

Thanks @patrickbarks for your answer. I now see the issue with the `opencovid19-fr` data. Re: Géodes, I do seem to get some data out of it: https://geodes.santepubliquefrance.fr/index.php#c=indicator&i=covid_hospit_incid.incid_dc&s=2020-04-28&t=a01&view=map1 > Nombre quotidien...