Tonight a couple of us were having a discussion on the OpenSpending IRC channel on how we can promote and better document the usage of the API. Tony had already begun to work on OpenSpending using R. I had previously done so as well. This prompted me to start out and create an R Package: ropenspending. ropenspending aims at making it easier to access the openspending API from within R. It provides
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