usdoj (version 1.1.1)

doj_blog_entries: Fetch U.S. DOJ Blog Entries

Description

For accessing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) open data blog entries.

Usage

doj_blog_entries(
  n_results = 50,
  search_direction = "DESC",
  keyword = NULL,
  clean = TRUE
  )

Value

Dataframe containing API pull of U.S. DOJ blog entries.

Arguments

n_results

The number of results to return. By default, 50 results are returned.

search_direction

Set to ASC or DESC to fetch data starting from the most or least recent entries. By default, data is sorted in descending order (the most recent entries).

keyword

Only return results containing a keyword. Keyword can be a single word, a list or words, or a regex separated by the pipe delimiter

clean

Set to FALSE to return data without additional cleaning. By default HTML tags, white space, line breaks, and other messy characters are removed. Epoch time is converted to year-month-day format.

Examples

# Return a dataframe with 50 of the latest records. Data is cleaned.
latest_records <- doj_blog_entries()
head(latest_records)

# Return a dataframe with 15 of the earliest records. Data is not cleaned.
earliest_records <- doj_blog_entries(n_results = 15, search_direction = "ASC")
head(earliest_records)