Package Overview

Interacting with Data.gov.sg’s API is done through one of four clients, where each client corresponds with a “set” of endpoints. (Data.gov.sg doesn’t categorise its endpoints by set, but it can be assumed from the endpoints’ path directories.)

The four clients are: Ckan, Environment, Technology and Transport.

Each client contains several public functions, one function per endpoint. A function’s name is the same as its corresponding endpoint’s ending path.

Most functions accept named arguments, where an argument corresponds with a parameter that the endpoint accepts.

Why have separate clients instead of one single client?

Without knowing how Data.gov.sg’s API will evolve, and noticing that the endpoints were themselves already partitioned into “sets”, it seemed like a good idea to keep each set of endpoints in its own contextual client. This allows for each “set” of endpoints to be customised on their own, e.g. the Environment endpoints allow for either a date or date-time to be specified, whereas the Transport endpoints don’t.