Query OpenCan portal for datasets (CKAN packages) matching keywords

Source: R/govcan_search.R

This function wraps ckanr::package_search() to search for any records matching a given set of keywords within the Open Canada Portal.

govcan_search(
  keywords,
  records = 10,
  only_results = TRUE,
  format_results = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

keywords

(character vector) A set of keywords to query.

records

(numeric) The number of matching records to return from the CKAN query (number of rows in the JSON output), default to 10.

only_results

(logical) Whether the function should return only the results without the query metadata (default is TRUE).

format_results

(logical) Whether the function should return a formatted output of the results as a tibble or an unformatted version under the form of a list of CKAN packages (default is FALSE).

...

More arguments to be passed on to ckanr::package_search().

Value

If only_results is TRUE and format_results is FALSE

(recommended), will return only the results of the search as a CKAN_package_stack. If only_results is FALSE, will return a list including also the query metadata. If format_results is TRUE, the function formats the output as a data frame (not CKAN packages).

Examples

if (FALSE) {
search <- govcan_search("dfo", 10)
search_format <- govcan_search("dfo", 10, format_results = TRUE)
search_list <- govcan_search("dfo", 10, only_results = FALSE)
search_list_format <- govcan_search("dfo", 10, format_results = TRUE,
                                   only_results = FALSE)
}