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RWebData: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web Cover

RWebData: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web

By: Ulrich Matter  
Open Access
|Feb 2018

Figures & Tables

Table 1

The same data as in the XML code example above, but mapped to data-frames according to the generic RWebData mapping procedure. While (a) contains data describing the firm (the main observational unit) itself, (b) and (c) contain the observations and variables describing the observation types employee and shareholder, respectively.

firmNamefirmID
1MicroCapital Ltd123
(a) Firm type
firstNamesecondName
1JohnSmith
2PeterPan
(b) [Employee type]
IDName
1S1Karl Marx
2S2Bill Gates
(c) [Shareholder type]
Figure 1

Basic architecture of the RWebData package.

Figure 2

Plot of the time series on United States’ public debt extracted from the World Bank Indicators API.

Figure 3

Reingold-Tilford tree-graph illustrating the nested structure of the raw JSON data from the Open States API.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.201 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 30, 2017
Accepted on: Feb 7, 2018
Published on: Feb 21, 2018
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2018 Ulrich Matter, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.