OxfordIHTM/africalaws

Interface to the Laws.Africa API # africalaws: Interface to the Laws.Africa API Laws.Africa endeavours to facilitate African governments in offering sustainable, free access to dependable digital laws. It aims to achieve this by ensuring that the laws are easily accessible, user-friendly, educational, and reusable. This initiative seeks to empower citizens with knowledge of their legal rights and obligations while promoting transparency and accountability within the legal system. Laws.Africa offers a content application programming interface (API) to fetch legislative content and metadata. The API is a read-only API for listing and fetching published versions of legislative works. This package interfaces with this API to allow access using R. ## What does `africalaws` do? Please note that `africalaws` is still highly experimental and is undergoing a lot of development. Hence, any functionalities described below and in the rest of the package documentation have a high likelihood of changing interface or approach as we aim for a stable working version. Currently, the package provides functions for: - Authenticating with the Laws.Africa API; - Performing a call to the `countries` API endpoint; and, - Performing a call to the `works` API endpoint. From here, the plan is to continue developing functions that wrap the various available API endpoints. ## Installation `africalaws` is not yet on CRAN but can be installed from the Oxford iHealth R Universe as follows: ``` r install.packages( "africalaws", repos = c('oxfordihtm.r-universe.dev', 'cloud.r-project.org') ) ``` ## Usage The following vignettes describe how to use the `africalaws` package. - Authenticating with the Laws.Africa API - Listing out countries and areas/locations with available works from the Laws.Africa API - Listing out works for a specific country or areas/locations that are available from the Laws.Africa API ## Citation If you find the `africalaws` package useful please cite using the sugges …