SmarterScotland: Accessing opendata.gov.scot

SmarterScotland provides a suite of convenience functions facilitating sourcing data from the statistics.gov.scot portal.

Details

For sample usage see vignette("basic-workflow", package = "SmarterScotland"). For other usage, including charting and more advanced functionalities see vignette("other-functions", package = "SmarterScotland").

Acknowledgements

The following package is written in the open (both metaphorically and literally as I tend do undertake this development as a leisure reactivity while working on the Glasgow - Edinburgh commuter train), with big thanks to the whole Open Source community that contributed useful input through their questions, answers, discussions and comments via StackOverflow, GitHub and R-Help.

Package options

SmarterScotland.endpoint

Defaults to http://statistics.gov.scot/sparql. If need can be changed by modifying options(SmarterScotland.endpoint = "new_value"). It's highly unlikely that you will ever need to change this option.

SmarterScotland.response_check

Defaults to warn which results in warning if endpoint is not accessible. Other options are stop and ignore which respectively stop on errors or ignore checks.

SmarterScotland.geography_match_msg

Shows geography URIs for which there is match in the stored data set.

SmarterScotland.suffix_rdf

When constructing URI appends /rdfs:label to selected strings. Defaults to TRUE; most likely you don't have a need to change this.

See also

Useful links:

• https://konradzdeb.github.io/SmarterScotland

• https://github.com/konradzdeb/SmarterScotland