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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon rOpenHealth

healthdata.gov Data API is down

Open ledell opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

The healthdata.gov Data API seems to be offline/broken, so the rHealthDataGov R package is not working at this time. I will try to get in touch with the people who run the API to see what the problem is.

To test the API from the command line, you can run a command like this:

curl http://hub.Healthdata.gov/api/action/datastore_search --data-urlencode '
{
  "resource_id": "391792b5-9c0a-48a1-918f-2ee63caa1c54",
  "filters": {
    "addr_city": "SAN FRANCISCO"
  }
}'

This currently returns the following error:

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Server Error</title>

    </head>
    <body>
    <h1>Server Error</h1>
    An internal server error occurred

    </body>
    </html>

In the R package, the error looks like this:

> library(rHealthDataGov)
> df <- fetch_healthdata(resource="hosp", filter=list(addr_city="SAN FRANCISCO"))
Error in .quick_fetch(jsontext) :

ledell avatar Dec 29 '14 04:12 ledell