Get Data From Open Data Scotland — ods

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

ods_get(
  data = NULL,
  search = NULL,
  refresh = FALSE,
  ask = TRUE,
  type = c("CSV", "GEOJSON", "JSON", "ZIP")
)

Arguments

data: Dataframe from ods_search() 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.
type: Character string to filter which filetype to download. Default if more than one datatype available to preference in this order; GEOJSON, CSV, JSON.

Value

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

Examples

search <- ods_search("bins")
#> Creating directory to hold opendatascot data at ~/.local/share/opendatascot
data <- ods_get(search, refresh = TRUE, ask = FALSE)
#> Saving to opendatascot data directory at ~/.local/share/opendatascot
#> Saving to opendatascot data directory at ~/.local/share/opendatascot
#> Saving to opendatascot data directory at ~/.local/share/opendatascot
#> Saving to opendatascot data directory at ~/.local/share/opendatascot
#> Saving to opendatascot data directory at ~/.local/share/opendatascot