From the course: R Essential Training: Wrangling and Visualizing Data
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Importing JSON data
From the course: R Essential Training: Wrangling and Visualizing Data
Importing JSON data
- [Man] The hierarchically structured data that you can get on the web comes in two common formats. Now elsewhere I've showed XML or extensible markup language. Another format that's very common, it's a little bit older is JSON, which stands for Java script object notation. I want to show you how to extract this same data that I use in the XML video except this time using JSON. It's the same similar concept, but because we use different packages it runs a little bit differently. Now I'm going to start by loading some packages including this one jsonlite, a very common package for working with JSON data and R and then I'm going to use the same racing data about 1954 formula one races. If you go to this page and then to this page, I can show you what those both look like. So this is the Ergast developer API. This is the homepage where it says you can use this information to help develop some of your code. This is the…
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