congressapi
R Client Package for Official Congress API (by miriamasagold)
crul
R6 based http client for R (for developers) (by ropensci)
| congressapi | crul | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 5 | 102 | |
| - | 1.0% | |
| 4.3 | 6.1 | |
| 9 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| R | R | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
congressapi
Posts with mentions or reviews of congressapi.
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and similar projects.
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I'm developing the congressapi package, would love feedback!
Recently, Congress released their official API for data on bills, amendments, congressional sessions, congress people, and more. I've been developing an R client package called congressapi that facilitates easy retrieval and analysis of all that yummy data!
crul
Posts with mentions or reviews of crul.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-03.
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How to download many files at once from a website using R
The crul package is also worth mentioning in this context (Asynchronous HTTP requests).
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Is there a recommended library for asynchronous HTTP servers in R?
Are there R packages which do something like this? I've come across crul: https://github.com/ropensci/crul
What are some alternatives?
When comparing congressapi and crul you can also consider the following projects:
drake - An R-focused pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing
daphne - Django Channels HTTP/WebSocket server
shinyjs - 💡 Easily improve the user experience of your Shiny apps in seconds
async - Asynchronous HTTP and computation in R
sf - Simple Features for R
httr - httr: a friendly http package for R [Moved to: https://github.com/r-lib/httr]
targets - Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R
httr - httr: a friendly http package for R
robinhood - Robinhood Policy Engine : a versatile tool to monitor filesystem contents and schedule actions on filesystem entries.
googleCloudStorageR - Google Cloud Storage API to R