ausdata.io

R client for ausdata.io

R researchers want a tibble, not a list of lists. The snippet below uses httr2 to call the endpoint and jsonlite to flatten the data array into a tibble, ready for dplyr.

No CRAN package yet. The httr2 helper above is the canonical client.

Install

Shell
install.packages(c("httr2", "jsonlite", "tibble"))

Canonical client

R
library(httr2)
library(jsonlite)
library(tibble)

ausdata <- function(path, ...) {
  request("https://api.ausdata.io") |>
    req_url_path_append(path) |>
    req_url_query(...) |>
    req_headers(Authorization = paste("Bearer", Sys.getenv("AUSDATA_KEY"))) |>
    req_perform() |>
    resp_body_json(simplifyVector = TRUE)
}

Use it

R
snap <- ausdata("/v1/economic-dashboard")
as_tibble(snap$data)

Notes

  • .Set AUSDATA_KEY in .Renviron. Restart R to pick it up.
  • .simplifyVector = TRUE turns the JSON array into a data.frame ready for as_tibble.
  • .Cache responses with memoise() if you call the same endpoint inside a knit loop.

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