usdoj, a package for fetching data from the United States (US) Department of Justice (DOJ) API, was released as part of the rOpenGov project. usdoj provides easy access to US DOJ press releases, blog entries, and speeches. Optional parameters allow use... [Read more...]

The new version of our rOpenGov R package regions was released today on CRAN. This package is one of the engines of our experimental open data-as-service Green Deal Data Observatory, Economy Data Observatory, and Digital Music Observatory prototypes, which aim to place open data packages into open-source applications. In international ... [Read more...]

We have released a new version of iotables as part of the rOpenGov project. The package, as the name suggests, works with European symmetric input-output tables (SIOTs). SIOTs are among the most complex governmental statistical products. They show how each country’s 64 agricultural, industrial, service, and sometimes household sectors relate ... [Read more...]

City of Helsinki public procurements have been available as open data since 2014. High quality data like this is obviously of great interest to many and [several interesting applications and visualizations] have been made available. With some additional open data from Finnish Patent and Registration Office and data wrangling, the location ... [Read more...]

General information Hetu-package for R is meant for algorithmic handling of Finnish personal identity numbers (PINs). The package is especially useful for those who wish to extract information from or validate a large number of PINs at a time. The... [Read more...]

We have slowly started developing a follow-up package with ropengov-posse for gisfin-package named geofi. Package provides access to few sources of Finnish open geospatial data from R. We are focusing in administrative regions at the moment and our... [Read more...]