Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R

Loading the jsonlite package

The following command is executed to include the jsonlite package in the R workspace:

library(jsonlite)

Data processing or parsing is done through a process called simplification. This is where JSON arrays are converted from a list into a more specific R class. Basically, with a simplification process, the arrays are broken down into values that can be easily understood. There are three different options that can be passed as arguments to the fromJSON function:

• simplifyVector: This option is used to convert arrays into a vector format
• simplifyDataFrame: This option is used to convert arrays into a data frame format with representation of rows and columns
• simplifyMatrix: This is similar to the data frame format, ...