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Load Any NYC Open Data Dataset

Source: R/nyc_any_dataset.R
nyc_any_dataset.Rd

Downloads any NYC Open Data dataset given its Socrata JSON endpoint.

Usage

nyc_any_dataset(
  json_link,
  limit = 10000,
  timeout_sec = 30,
  clean_names = TRUE,
  coerce_types = TRUE
)

Arguments

A Socrata dataset JSON endpoint URL (e.g., "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/abcd-1234.json").

limit

Number of rows to retrieve (default = 10,000).

timeout_sec

Request timeout in seconds (default = 30).

clean_names

Logical; if TRUE, convert column names to snake_case (default = TRUE).

coerce_types

Logical; if TRUE, attempt light type coercion (default = TRUE).

Value

A tibble containing the requested dataset.

Examples

# Examples that hit the live NYC Open Data API are guarded so CRAN checks
# do not fail when the network is unavailable or slow.
if (interactive() && curl::has_internet()) {
  endpoint <- "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/erm2-nwe9.json"
  out <- try(nyc_any_dataset(endpoint, limit = 3), silent = TRUE)
  if (!inherits(out, "try-error")) {
    head(out)
  }
}