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This repository represents a set of tools for crowd-sourcing generation of secondary measures constructed from the American Community Survey (ACS).
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Investigate the ability to generate an API in R for other users #4

Open nsmader opened 8 years ago

nsmader commented 8 years ago

This would be so that some developer could access output from our pull/construct functions, using whatever coding language they're using for development. E.g., something like a RESTful API in R. (Might be recommended against, and would do in something like Python, which is a true general purpose language.)

nsmader commented 8 years ago

If designing an API in Python, ~could~ call R from Python.

nsmader commented 8 years ago

Looks like Hadley Wickham just put this guide up.

dylan-stark commented 8 years ago

The API guide you mention covers the reverse of what you want (for this issue). That is, it provides some best practices for writing an R package that uses a web API.

That said, there are probably some useful tips in there that could be applied to handling the ACS API in a cleaner and more systematic way.