Reading in JSON data with the jsonlite R package

jsonlite is a JSON data parser for R. It makes reading data from JSON sources really easy and efficient.

Loading the jsonlite package

The following command is executed to include the jsonlite package in the R workspace:

library(jsonlite)

Data processing or parsing is done through a process called simplification. This is where JSON arrays are converted from a list into a more specific R class. Basically, with a simplification process, the arrays are broken down into values that can be easily understood. There are three different options that can be passed as arguments to the fromJSON function:

• simplifyVector: This option is used to convert arrays into a vector format
• simplifyDataFrame...