14Accessing Web APIs
Previous chapters have described how to access data from local .csv files, as well as from local databases. While working with local data is common for many analyses, more complex shared data systems leverage web services for data access. Rather than store data on each analyst’s computer, data is stored on a remote server (i.e., a central computer somewhere on the internet) and accessed similarly to how you access information on the web (via a URL). This allows scripts to always work with the latest data available when performing analysis of data that may be changing rapidly, such as social media data.
In this chapter, you will learn how to use R to programmatically interact with data stored by web services. From an R script, ...
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