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helsinki - Helsinki open data R tools

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The goal of helsinki package is to provide tools in R to access and download open data from City of Helsinki and the Helsinki metropolitan area - the Finnish capital region.

Installation

You can install the released version of helsinki from CRAN with:

install.packages("helsinki")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes)
library(remotes)
remotes::install_github("ropengov/helsinki")

Using the package

Loading the package:

library(helsinki)

List available features from Helsinki Region Environmental Services HSY WFS API and then download the 15th feature from that list:

url <- "https://kartta.hsy.fi/geoserver/wfs"
hsy_features <- get_feature_list(base.url = url)
get_feature(base.url = url, typename = hsy_features$Name[15])

For more examples, check the tutorial page.

Contributing

You are welcome to contact us:

Acknowledgements

Kindly cite this work as follows: Juuso Parkkinen, Joona Lehtomäki, Pyry Kantanen, and Leo Lahti. helsinki - Helsinki open data R tools. URL: http://ropengov.github.io/helsinki/

We are grateful to all contributors! This project is part of rOpenGov.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.