Question

Is there a way to import data from a JSON file into R? More specifically, the file is an array of JSON objects with string fields, objects, and arrays. The RJSON Package isn’t very clear on how to deal with this http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rjson/rjson.pdf.

Answer 1

First install the rjson package:

install.packages("rjson")

Then:

library("rjson")
json_file <- "http://api.worldbank.org/country?per_page=10&region=OED&lendingtype=LNX&format=json"
json_data <- fromJSON(paste(readLines(json_file), collapse=""))

Update: since version 0.2.1

json_data <- fromJSON(file=json_file)