Free text queries

[antagomir]

We may consider providing also functionality for free text queries through the API. For instance get election (vaalit)-related data from Statistics Finland: http://pxwebapi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/api/v1/fi/StatFin?query=vaalit or more detailed queries: väestö under category vrm http://pxwebapi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/api/v1/fi/StatFin/vrm?query=väestö or 091 (Helsinki) from the code list http://pxwebapi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/api/v1/fi/StatFin?query=091&filter=codes Note: URL encoding needs to be checked for special characters that are common in Swedish and Finnish (å/ä/ö).

However it might be more handy for a user to use nice web GUIs to locate the URL for thei data set of interest, then download the data through R. Hence perhaps this free text query property is not a priority for pxweb pkg.

[MansMeg]

It can be done, but as you say I guess its low priority.

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9 aug 2014 kl. 11:44 skrev Leo Lahti [email protected]:

We may consider providing also functionality for free text queries through the API. For instance get election (vaalit)-related data from Statistics Finland: http://pxwebapi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/api/v1/fi/StatFin?query=vaalit or more detailed queries: väestö under category vrm http://pxwebapi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/api/v1/fi/StatFin/vrm?query=väestö or 091 (Helsinki) from the code list http://pxwebapi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/api/v1/fi/StatFin?query=091&filter=codes Note: URL encoding needs to be checked for special characters that are common in Swedish and Finnish (å/ä/ö).

However it might be more handy for a user to use nice web GUIs to locate the URL for thei data set of interest, then download the data through R. Hence perhaps this free text query property is not a priority for pxweb pkg.

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[MansMeg]

It is now full functionality for searching in the pxweb api