ckanr is a full client for the CKAN API, wrapping all APIs, including for reading and writing data. Please get in touch (https://github.com/ropensci/ckanr/issues or https://discuss.ropensci.org/) if you have problems, or have use cases that we don't cover yet.
Document for the CKAN API is at http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html. We'll always be following the lastest version of the API.
The functions can be grouped into those for setup, packages, resources, tags, organizations, groups, and users.
Setup - The main one is ckanr_setup - and many related
functions, e.g., get_default_key
Packages - Create a package with package_create, and see
other functions starting with package_*
Resources - Create a package with resource_create, and see
other functions starting with resource_*
Tags - List tags with tag_list, and see
other functions starting with tag_*
Organizations - List organizations with organization_list,
show a specific organization with organization_show, and
create with organization_create
Groups - List groups with group_list, and see
other functions starting with group_*
Users - List users with user_list, and see
other functions starting with user_*
Related items - See functions starting with related_*
We are also working on supporting the Datastore extension (http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/datastore.html). We currently have these functions:
Data can come back in a huge variety of formats. We've attempted a function to
help you fetch not just metadata but the actual data for a link to a file on
a CKAN instance. Though if you know what you're doing, you can easily use
whatever is your preferred tool for the job (e.g., maybe you like
read.csv for reading csv files).
We have a helper function (servers) that spits out the current
CKAN instances we know about, with URLs to their base URLs that should work
using this package. That is, not necessarily landing pages of each instance,
although, the URL may be the landing page and the base API URL.