disastr.api: Wrapper for the UN OCHA ReliefWeb Disaster Events API

Access and manage the application programming interface (API) of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' (OCHA) ReliefWeb disaster events at <https://reliefweb.int/disasters/>. The package requires a minimal number of dependencies. It offers functionality to retrieve a user-defined sample of disaster events from ReliefWeb, providing an easy alternative to scraping the ReliefWeb website. It enables a seamless integration of regular data updates into the research work flow.

Version: 1.0.5
Imports: httr, jsonlite
Suggests: testthat
Published: 2021-03-05
Author: Christoph Dworschak ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Christoph Dworschak <c.dworschak at essex.ac.uk>
License: GPL-3
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: disastr.api results

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Reference manual: disastr.api.pdf

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Package source: disastr.api_1.0.5.tar.gz
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