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read_json

Read/write JSON

These functions are similar to toJSON and fromJSON except they explicitly distinguish between path and literal input, and do not simplify by default.

read_json(path, simplifyVector = FALSE, ...)

parse_json(json, simplifyVector = FALSE, ...)

write_json(x, path, ...)

`path`	file on disk
`simplifyVector`	simplifies nested lists into vectors and data frames. See fromJSON.
`...`	additional conversion arguments, see also toJSON or fromJSON
`json`	string with literal json or connection object to read from
`x`	an object to be serialized to JSON

tmp <- tempfile()
write_json(iris, tmp)

# Nested lists
read_json(tmp)

# A data frame
read_json(tmp, simplifyVector = TRUE)

A Simple and Robust JSON Parser and Generator for R

v1.7.2

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4035-0289>), Duncan Temple Lang [ctb], Lloyd Hilaiel [cph] (author of bundled libyajl)

Initial release