Get Data From Open Data Scotland — get

Return data from https://opendata.scot/ website. Currently, only datasets in CSV, JSON and GeoJSON formats supported. If data is not available in these formats, a warning is provided. By default data is saved locally to avoid re-downloading on subsequent requests.

Usage

get_ods(data = NULL, search = NULL, refresh = FALSE, ask = TRUE)

Arguments

data: Dataframe from search_ods() or if default (NULL), will download all datasets.
search: Search term(s) if data parameter not provided.
refresh: Refresh cached data. If data has changed remotely, use this to update or renew corrupted data/cache. This will download data again and update the cache.
ask: If FALSE, user will not be prompted for input to download data. This is useful to automate data downloads and cache updated, or speed-up the process if downloading many datasets at once.

Value

list of named data frames. GeoJSON data is converted to simple features sf class to aid spatial analysis.

Examples

search <- search_ods("Grit bins")
#> You searched for: `Grit bins`. No dataset titles contain that search term
data <- get_ods(search, refresh = TRUE, ask = FALSE)
#> Error in get_ods(search, refresh = TRUE, ask = FALSE): data must have more than one row