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validate

Validate JSON

Description

Test if a string contains valid JSON. Characters vectors will be collapsed into a single string.

Usage

validate(txt)

Arguments

txt

JSON string

Examples

#Output from toJSON and serializeJSON should pass validation
myjson <- toJSON(mtcars)
validate(myjson) #TRUE

#Something bad happened
truncated <- substring(myjson, 1, 100)
validate(truncated) #FALSE

jsonlite

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