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Source: NEWS.md

rdatagouv 0.1.0

This is the first release of rdatagouv, an R client for the public API of data.gouv.fr, the French government’s open data platform. Download and install the package to explore, download and reuse public datasets from your terminal.

The package is organised around the workflow it supports:

  • Find a dataset that matches your interests with dg_find_datasets() (full-text and schema-only search, and filters such as organization, topic, geozone, license or format) and identify its producer with dg_find_organization(), or browse data.gouv’s curated themes with dg_find_topics().
  • Judge whether a dataset is usable: dg_glimpse() surfaces quality scores, download counts and coverage metadata, and dg_schema() returns the documented columns of the data’s declared schema so you can check the variables before downloading.
  • Fetch the data: dg_pull_dataset() downloads a dataset’s tabular resources (CSV, XLS/XLSX, Parquet, ZIP, …) into tidy tibbles, optionally keeping only fully numeric columns or forcing the type of specific columns.
  • Reuse it reproducibly: each pulled table carries a stable identifier, read with dg_table_id() and used by dg_refetch() to re-download the exact same table later.
  • Summarise a table with dg_summary() (size, number of columns, rows, missing-value rate), or many tables at once with dg_summarise().
  • Diagnose parsing with dg_problems(), which returns the rows and columns that could not be read as expected.

The README is a good starting point, and the package vignette walks through each function with worked examples.